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by rtkwe 1518 days ago
They won't or if they do not for long. Gab, Parlor, and all the other right-wing "we're getting censored on Twitter come here where we won't censor anything (legal)" Twitter clones have all figured out rapidly why content moderation exists and that it's basically a necessity on the web as they get mercilessly trolled and spammed.

All he's really saying is he'd prefer to accept more shitty behavior from people who he aligns with and less from people who annoy him.

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The only reason those spaces implemented content moderation was because they couldn't get hosting anywhere. Not because of 'merciless trolling and spam'.
Hard to say exactly why it happened, but users of those sites were quite unhappy with the lack of moderation from what I saw at the time.