I don’t mean to imply any sort of assessment of your intelligence or care in thinking. I’m mostly calling out over broad generalizations.

And I understand where you are coming from on moderating speech. But I also feel that until better solutions are devised, and the ramifications of unchecked noise are well understood, that moderation on digital platforms is needed. And that digital spaces can’t just be treated as if they are not “real spaces” with boundaries circumscribed. I feel people have the right to build and maintain spaces for specific styles and structures of discourse.

And this comes into conflict with ideas of censorship.

Analogy: But I’m not censoring you if I exclude you from my book club meetings that you attempted to participate in at the public library. I am curating the space I have built, and the way you attempted to participate was disruptive, or incongruous with the intent of the group.

In any case. I’m not trying to tell you you are wrong. But I do think that mega-scale platforms like Reddit and Twitter and others of that scale intrinsically have to function at a different level.

What was once a space that people like yourself could be free to be provocative, and shit post, and push difficult ideas has become a space where there are innumerable people like you who build up what ends up being noise. Your style of discourse is probally better suited to smaller spaces. IMO.

It’s a difficult problem. And I think you know that. And you are just arguing your side. I’d just suggest not being too overly broad, and uncharitable.