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

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

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

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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?

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?

To a flat Earther, what's wrong with the idea that gravity is simply a force inherent to space which operates only in one dimension? Why do they go further and try to deny gravity rather than just saying it's different than physicists claim?

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.

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

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

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

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.

Do women lack the mental strength to succeed at STEM? There seems to be few women at STEM and more women leave STEM after a time of working at it. How can it be just sexism if women aren't banned from entering?

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.