Squabblr now officially a "free speech" cesspool, admins removed or forced out by owner

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So I mean, most of us knew this beforehand and being on the fediverse we probably do not really care, but what was always on the horizon has no happened, the owner of Squabblr finally had enough having to be a decent person and has decided that his site is now "free speech purism", so he gets to continue to insult LGBTQ people like he always does.

Seems from the comments that some other admins disagreed with the decision (so there were some decent people on that site!) and either left or were removed.

Not entirely surprising the whole thing, granted.

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Also, apologies as this isn't truly reddit news but Squabblr was one of the sites frequently brought up in /r/redditalternatives so I figured this might still be relevant?

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Liberals are terrified of conversations. They updated the TOS and explicitly banned any kind of hate or discrimination but allowing people to have disagreements and conversations now makes you a bigot. 🤷

I mean, I get it, a lot of "free speech" platforms ARE a dogwhistle to all kinds of hateful shit but it doesn't have to be that way.

It also came out on mod discord that jayclees hates lgbt people and thought they were scaring off conservatives. Luckily he won't have that problem anymore as the dog wasn't in the right frequency so everyone heard it loud and clear.

What does "hates lgbt" mean in this case?

EDIT: just show me the hatefull comments. I'm out of the loop

Would you care to share what was said?

Not that you're wrong but far too many people equate "things I don't like" with "homophobic".