>The issue is that we know from experience, after 20+ years of the modern Internet, that if you make a 'free speech' drive/repository place that's widely available, it will host the absolute worst of the human race.
And that's just fine. People have the right to be assholes.
And it's your right to think that. But it's my right to think that containing the degree that people can be assholes makes for a better internet and a better world.
In the physical world, if people act badly enough, there will tend to be physical consequences. If someone goes up to a grandmother or little girl or whoever, and starts berating them with vile or threatening speech, they do so at the risk of finding themselves bloodied or worse. Everyone knows this can happen, and unless they are mentally ill, tend to learn at an early age to curtail such behavior behavior before something bad happens to them.
All this has had thousands of years to evolve to the current state, where in most places (at least in the first world), interacting with people in public places is generally pleasant and non-confrontational.
But online, it isn't that way. When there are zero repercussions, things become very unpleasant for all but... well, those assholes.
I get that you prefer such a world, but I don't. How do we work that out? Do we all adopt your way, simply because.... I dunno, I guess because that's what you want?
Oddly enough, there is not a strong business case in allowing the dregs of society to post their garbage all over your servers.
If Twitter adopted 4chan policies, it would be destroyed financially in short order.
Twitter is pretty loose compared to many of the big social sites. They allow nudity and porn, for example, but of course have rules such as marking it as sensitive. Try that on FB.
It is almost like they adopt polices that help their business. Just like brick and mortar businesses have policies on customer conduct and will ban trouble makers that impact their bottom line.
People have a right to be assholes but everyone else has the right to shun them from polite society.
There is no right to be heard, just to speak and not have the government stomp on you for it. No one else is required to listen or host it.
And that's just fine. People have the right to be assholes.