[refurb]

This is what I said a year ago. You can’t moderate speech and come out the other side looking like a hero. You will only come be hated by everyone.

[evgen]

Better to be hated by everyone than counted among the nazis. You can moderate speech, but the first step is to stop caring about the opinions of the chattering classes such as is found on HN (or on Twitter for that matter.)

[loveistheanswer]

Indeed. The Catholic Church successfully moderated speech for centuries for the completely benevolent cause of saving people's souls from the eternity of hell fire which awaited them if they were to fall victim to misinformation