“ MeWe is social done right, the way social media was envisioned from the beginning — in the spirit of free speech supported by the US Constitution and democracy worldwide.”
Not really, as you yourself have said, and as it says in your TOS:
“ You may NOT:”
“ Post content that is hateful … harmful … or contains graphic or gratuitous violence.”
All of which goes right against First Amendment. First things first:
“The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech is legally protected free speech under the First Amendment.”
The fact that you think you can decide what’s “hateful” speaks of the issue in itself — Twitter thinks that “misgendering” is hateful and many other things, and despite someone who is fairly pro-trans, I and plenty others don’t see it that way. At the same time, I find a lot of far-left politics “hateful” and borderline supremacist, but plenty of people consider it just.
Secondly “harmful,” really? What does that even mean? Harmful to who? To another person? To someone whose feelings may be hurt? To you?
Lastly, ”or contains graphic or gratuitous violence.”
And as such, you’ve already decided to be more censorious than Twitter, Reddit, and other social media that’s considered bad when it comes to censorship. Truly, you’ve envisioned your website in the “spirit of free speech supported by the US Constitution.” Well, as long it’s the speech you agree with, anyway.
There’s also this, though: “MeWe is unlike ‘hater’ networks like Gab, which has an ‘anything goes’ philosophy that allows hate groups and law-breakers.”
They actually *don’t* allow “law-breakers,” unlike your website, theirs is *actually* modeled after US laws and free speech, which says enough about your website and your take towards free speech, doesn’t it?