[betterunix2]

"Any service that guarantees no censorship is going to have the majority of its userbase be the runoff from other major websites"

Exactly, which is why you are wrong here:

"When voat was created, I 100% believed that they were not attempting to create extremist havens"

It is not as if the major websites are quick to censor their users. If anything they are too cautious and have only banned terrorists after widespread pressure and threats of advertiser boycotts. If you set up a platform that is open to the few people who were so extreme that even Reddit or Twitter banned them, then you are creating an extremist haven, no matter what language you use to describe your intentions.

[ryandrake]

One could argue that intentions don't really matter, ether. "The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does" [1]. If your system ends up being a forum for a certain type of posts, then that's kind of what it is, regardless of what you originally wanted it to be.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

[dependenttypes]

> If anything they are too cautious and have only banned terrorists after widespread pressure and threats of advertiser boycotts

This is nowhere close to what reddit/twitter have been doing however.

> then you are creating an extremist haven

...of people interested in anime porn after reddit banned them.