I was just thinking about the Voat situation and many of the issues facing "free speech" platforms.
Besides attracting an audience that tends to shit where they eat I was thinking a good portion of the issues they have stem from a few words.
The discussion of free speech and censorship on these sites almost always boils down to a few words.
Which reminded me of the time when 4chan decided to create a word filter to replace certain words with "rudy poo" and "the people's champion". It was a fun creative way to skirt some site issues for a time.
So why not word filter the words that will get you demonetized and deplatformed, the community will know what the words mean and outsiders seeking to bring down your community would have to do a lot more work to prove intent.
It's a natural idea, and a creative one, but not necessary.
There is no reason for Polsaker and Boukert or whoever pays the bill to have to pay three or possibly ten times as much and have a lot of fake news here. This is a nice forum with nice people. It's not necessary to say the n-word or one of the very few words the ISP will throw a fit over.
Besides, most of the 'free speech' crowd in Voat's context are only obsessed with free speech because it affects them when they are the minority. If given the power/majority they'd forcefully relocate people or genocide them, and ban certain topics from public discussion because of their 'moral convictions' (no gay public school teachers, etc.). Those babies can whine elsewhere. We already had an increase in whining since Voat shut down.