Is it hypocritical for free speech advocates to moderate comments on their own site?

You know, I always wanted to create a non-profit comment hosting service designed so that the public could easily comment on anything online and, so long as it were legal, the subject of that commentary had no control over it.

The downside, of course, is that the subject wouldn’t be insta-publishing it vicariously with the original content, though I suspect many sites would eagerly drop in the code anyway. Whatever policies they have for local presentation, bans, or moderation, the comment would still exist in public form at the central repository.

I changed my mind because of gmaergate and turmp, which exposed what such a service would be doomed to embody.

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