Why is the internet so restrictive? Why is it impossible to find a place where you can express yourself fully?

Who would use a site that lets you express absolutely anything?

Who would use a site that lets you express absolutely anything except child porn and terrorism?

Why is the Internet restrictive about what you can say? I wonder…

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The internet is restrictive because it’s other people’s stuff. You don’t have the right to use other people’s stuff for free. If you do use other people’s stuff, they have the right to tell you what you can and can’t do with it, and to tell you to stop using it if they want to.

It’s impossible to find a place to express yourself without restriction for reasons that are obvious if you think about it.

So they lost their hosting, made some changes, found a new host, and came back with new rules: you can express absolutely anything except child porn.

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That’s right: child pornographers. Within months, 8chan was absolutely flooded with child porn. And I don’t mean child porn like 17-year-olds posing nude, I mean child porn like graphic photos of 6-month-old babies being raped.

So they lost their hosting again, made some changes again, found a new host, and came back with new rules: you can express absolutely anything except child porn or terrorism..

That’s right, terrorists. It started swarming with ISIS recruiters and people planning terrorist attacks.

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That’s right, spree killers. In a single six-month period, it was used to plan and coordinate not one, not two, but three mass murder rampages.

What happens if there’s a site that lets you say whatever you want with no restrictions? We don’t have to wonder or guess. We know, because there have been such sites, like 8chan. 8chan let anyone say anything they wanted to without restriction. What happened?

What would happen if the Soviet Union had simply annexed Manchuria after World War 2 or kept it independent as a puppet state allied them and separate from China as China was too weak too oppose it anyway?

Who would use a site that lets you express absolutely anything except child porn?