I was a mod, and by the definition used to pillory content moderation, there is no free speech compatible moderation anywhere.

This is the same thing done by everyone from radio jockeys dealing with callers, to TV shows.

The fundamental tool is the ban, because the only real power for site owners is silence.

Any principled stand will be riddled with exceptions in under a few days of operation. I’ve seen this repeated in multiple free speech communities, like clockwork.

Id very much like to see a principled stand which isn’t reducible to “free speech = speech exceptions I can tolerate.”

Most people can’t and don’t want to live in 4chan (8chan ?)