"""The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts,
and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen,
your new society will end up consisting of approximately
three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches.
It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong."""
If alternatives also decide to ban the stuff that Twitter bans, then (at best) that's only appealing to the narrow range of content bad enough to get banned by Twitter, but wouldn't be 'sensibly banned'.
I'm reminded of https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
"""The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong."""
If alternatives also decide to ban the stuff that Twitter bans, then (at best) that's only appealing to the narrow range of content bad enough to get banned by Twitter, but wouldn't be 'sensibly banned'.