None of these options sounds good. I'd like to point out that making Voat a bastion of free speech, and making a stand against hate speech are not mutually exclusive goals. I think if you run a bar, and 90% of your clients are white supremacists and you decide that you don't want to hassle people by trying to do anything to discourage the white supremacists from attending your bar, then congratulations, you have respected free speech, and you are now, for all intents and purposes, a white supremacist sympathizer. This is what Voat has become, and for that reason, I don't recommend Voat to my friends because I think this place has a lot of vile people, and I come here to see what people are talking about, while trying to ignore the hate speech. Although it's not easy.
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None of these options sounds good. I'd like to point out that making Voat a bastion of free speech, and making a stand against hate speech are not mutually exclusive goals. I think if you run a bar, and 90% of your clients are white supremacists and you decide that you don't want to hassle people by trying to do anything to discourage the white supremacists from attending your bar, then congratulations, you have respected free speech, and you are now, for all intents and purposes, a white supremacist sympathizer. This is what Voat has become, and for that reason, I don't recommend Voat to my friends because I think this place has a lot of vile people, and I come here to see what people are talking about, while trying to ignore the hate speech. Although it's not easy.