What a ride that was. I wonder if it was part of the Q plan?
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Then it's not a highbrow type of free speech, it's a lowbrow type of free speech. The problem with that is that while the lowbrows are enjoying shooting off their mouths and seeing how far they can get away with it, the highbrows won't bother to share any high effort posts in such an environment. I don't blame them. Most of their readership would be lowbrows interested in shock speech, not true camaraderie and patriotism.
That said, I do support that there should be places on the internet where one can insult anyone in any way they want, pick a fight at every possible opportunity, post the most disgusting images ever, drive people away with offensive behavior, and just be the biggest assholes they can be.
To some people, this is absolute heaven.
Where is this heavenly place? And does someone sacrifice and fund it free of charge for those demanding absolutely no moderation ever?
It's probably much more satisfying in a juvenile way to find a more highbrow type group and sneak in the lowbrow profanity and racism because it's not expected and has shock value. And it makes it a fun game to see how far one can go before the moderators have to act.
I think Bob was simply making the point that free speech means you are going to see, hear, read some things you won't like. In most cases, that tells you a lot about the person speaking.
The unfortunate side effect of free speech is all the people who show up to disrupt the site, disrupt the movement, and derail good conversations. But they were identified and removed. Some of them were CIA moles, some basement dwellers, some political operatives, and some liberals who feel it's their job to destroy everything worthwhile. You could sometimes tell if you paid attention to how they interacted and what they said (the little tells). But the funny thing was, as iron sharpens iron, often the people we disagreed with brought out the best in us, and we all learned a lot.