The problem is a social media site is different than a phone service. How would you deal, for example, with an anti-gun shitbag polluting this site with their commie garbage? Let them troll to their hearts content and tell people to ignore them? Can’t ban them cuz they have freedom of speech?
Before I answer, think carefully about this statement:
"The chains you forge for others are the chains that will be used to bind you."
It's not just hypothetical, we are seeing it in real life every day and it has become a critical fight for survival because the "good folks" built so many chains.
Now let's say for some reason Sniper's Hide was to become big enough and powerful enough that they would fall under the category of "common carrier" as in SH bought up all the competition, dominated the forum industry etc.
So let's say that because of that common carrier rules applied and legal, lawful, content could not be prohibited as long as they followed the standard rules that applied equally to everyone and were openly listed and uniformly applied etc.
You don't like left wing folks saying stuff you disagree with? No problem, nobody says you have to listen.
Quick click of the ignore button and you never see that person's posts again.
A forum software update could let you block posts with keywords you don't like, or block posters that people, or your friends etc gave the thumbs down to a few too many times.
A quick filter option could let you block from your view categories of things you don't like seeing.
But it would be YOUR CHOICE of what YOU wish to see, and you would not be restricting anyone's freedom of speech.
Just as they would be free to do the same to you.
It would be your personal choice of what to listen to and yes you'd have to be a bit of a grown up and not whine if you came across something you hated, rather click, it disappears from your view and you go on enjoying life. Others may want to have fun reading what they hate and engaging in debate with those posting it.
Now if the person crossed the line and engaged in illegal actions such as various things the courts have ruled are not protected by free speech, then they are gone and depending on the offense, the law can follow up on it if it was serious enough to warrant charges.
Even now on SH it's crazy easy to not see things that you don't like.
The dirty secret is most people don't want to simply not see what they don't like, they want to see it and then complain and try to make everybody have to do what they think is right.
That's pretty much the story of this country, almost nobody actually believes in real freedom, just about everybody believes in freedom for what they like to do and believe and then wants restrictions and government repression on things they don't like. The few times some folks here on SH didn't believe me, it was pretty quick & easy to prove their own bias to them.
It's the same with freedom of religion in this country, almost nobody ever actually in the history of this country was totally happy with the idea of full freedom of religion, but everybody was united in fear that somebody else's religion would get the upper hand and make their religion or sect illegal and so that fear got everyone on board with agreeing to the patchwork of social contract we think of as freedom of religion.
