Free speech is a difficult and delicate thing to address on a social media platform and it's one thing I'm trying to tackle on SpeakBits. I genuinely don't want to make anyone feel censored when they are a user of SpeakBits and to feel free to speak their mind. At the same time, I don't want any users to feel alienated or unwelcome on the site because its users are freely spewing hateful speech and content on the site. SpeakBits isn't one of those "free speech" sites.

I personally subscribe to the legal definition of free speech and by its definition, there are some forms of speech that aren't protected and would need to be removed from the site. At a high level, my view would be that talking about difficult and sensitive subjects would be fine but trying to incite violence, harassment of other users or calling for the harassment of a group of people, and using hate speech would not be.

This is obviously a very broad definition and I recognize that there is always nuance depending on the context and the situation. I know that sometimes moderators could misunderstand that context and that it would lead to the removal of a post or a comment. To try and solve this, I've put in place an appeal system that would let you put the removal up to a vote to a randomized group of users on the site to determine if it should stand or if your post/comment should be reinstated. The goal is to remove the personal views of the moderator in question and let the users in each group and on the site as a whole decide what should and shouldn't be removed.

If that sounds fair and close to what you're looking for, SpeakBits would very much enjoy having you as a user.