Not only that but saying anything is "freedom of speech" always attracts the worst posters especially post 2016, along with grifters.
Aside from the fact that calling your site free speech is not only oversaturated, but never means shit because it exists to be tested. There were tons of "grifty" sites and companies where "freedom of speech" meant "right wing only" or "left wing only" (pre-2016).
freespeech.org is a great example. It's all left-wing because the left wing had their own censorship issue but different; it was impossible for a left wing radio host to get wide carriage due to Clear Channel and a few large companies owning most of the airwaves, and furthermore projects like Current TV or Air America went down in flames.
One of the talk show hosts there lamented this during her temporary retirement: she was complaining how in the Obama era there would be like several stations carrying the Sean Hannities and Rush Limbaughs of the talk radio sphere in a hard blue city that consistently voted for Obama and Gavin Newsom and the like. But meanwhile her station was being bought out to share more of the right wing version of her show instead.
To add to that, the people who want left wing radio will listen to the NPRs and MSNBCs of the world, which are universally carried unlike Thom Hartmann.
But you'll never see a right wing host on something like freespeech.org and that's the point. While something like Odysee might be free speech, uploading left wing content to Bitchute would be a real test in "how much is this free speech site, actually free speech". Because at that point it's as open as a Discord server is.
Or in this case, fedi instances that advertise it and ban you for not having a specific viewpoint, and there are many examples of "free speech" instances that are literally just online right instances that post about the same political shit day in, day out.
https://makai.chaotic.ninja/files/a0aaed59-8a26-4874-b77b-37d77d4f84d5
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