Anthony Miller (@cl00bie)

@DavidBond The one who chooses to shut the door is the one who is paying for the server that you are a guest on. @a is a "hands-off" kind of guy on his server. That's great for us. But that could change in a heartbeat. Tomorrow he could decide to only allow us to post gabs that have a "Q" in them. We are on this server at his pleasure. This is why I choose to come here. Others like to have a more structured communication experience. They choose to join servers with more draconian posting policies. They want to be exclusive "gated communities" and that's okay. You are not banned from the fediverse, you are banned from specific instances who don't want to deal with you for whatever reason. You have reach on all bastions of free speech that choose to federate with you. Why do you feel a need to dictate how other people run their servers?