what porn laws?

Those that require porn sites to have the 18 and over check box

i've seen viagra and cialis commercials on TV.

perfectly family friendly

Okay, why can't they be on social media?

why indeed? we can have every second reply to every post be about big dick energy that'll make your woman swoon

We could. We could have bots. How do you prove an account is a bot?

i constantly receive messages from helpful people telling me about 7 ways to DESTROY toenail fungus

i'm trying to say that there are lots and lots (and *lots*) of unforeseen consequences to your approach.

If we allow them to ban people who are spamming, then we allow them to ban anyone they don't like.

whereas if we just try to boot companies in the dick for colluding to squash competitors, we don't have to upset the current balance.

Because what is the difference between someone standing outside trump tower repeating orange man bad and someone spamming that on social media?

spam is automated and outnumbers humans in volume.

Social media involve using someone else's resources to do your shouting

Okay, so then we agree Twitter can keep on doing what it is doing

I mean, who are we to force them to host someone they don't want?

Megaphones help boost speech too, should megaphone companies be forced to give them for free?

IMO the way forward is technological

Things like Minds that are by-design censorship-resistant

Or where even the platform holders can't see what's going on without user assistance

I would agree there

Although that has some way to go still

These things take time

I think patience is recommended here

Jumping the gun will likely only make things worse

it would be tolerable (if not ideal) for twitter to continue to censor people based on their political ideology if and only if the market were free and competitors were possible. so there are two solutions, each fraught with peril. one is to have some form of government regulation in twitter's behavior, the other is to force payment processors to work with alternatives like gab. without one of those two alternatives, we have to accept that the principle of free speech does not apply to the internet.

right now we have neither of these two scenarios.

I think both of those things is true, though

Anyone can make a social network

See: Gab, Minds, more small ones

What we need to figure out is a way around payment processors

Just because it doesn't displace all at once doesn't mean it's not competing with it

gab may not last the night.

We can get around thinks like ISPs, but that requires a community effort.

Tor/VPN?

Minds is a step. Cryptos might be a way to get around the problem. But they are still too unstable

still requires hosting infrastructure and payment processors

Really why are payment processors even needed? Because we are too lazy to write monthly checks.

gab is being booted from its second host within hours

I thought Minds had some internal crypto?

Or ship hard cash