>I didn’t argue that content needs to be checked prior to being posted?
That is what you are arguing for. The GP said the best parts of the internet are at stake and you dismissed that off-hand by implying that the communities you participate in can either exceed the timeliness of KF's moderation, or less charitibly, there are no parts of the internet worth saving.
Dang runs a tight ship, but make no mistake that Dang and team relies just as much on user reports as other sites do. And it is impossible to moderate new users / posts within minutes of creation.
On KF, harassment in meatspace was not only against the rules (threads removed, perpetrators banned), but against the site culture. Instigators were called out and made fun of. Doxing and making mean threads about people is certainly distasteful, but until legislation catches up, this activity is unfortunately not illegal and not isolated to KF.
Your understand of KF is either biased by people with a vested stake in taking down KF, or mis-informed. Others in these threads have gone through KF's "side of the story", which makes the entire situation complicated and not a clear black-and-white case.
From what I understand, there has only been one alleged suicide tied to KF. I use the word alleged because said suicide has not to date been confirmed by authorities (Japanese or American), and the supposed victim has gone radio silent in the past. If a platform (even a supposed hateful one), can only be tied to a single suicide, how is that even comparable to the unimaginable number of suicides tied to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, Discord, etc.?
Make no mistake, I think KF is a vile place and don't support them in the least... but we must be cognisant of what exactly is at stake if we set impossible bars for moderation.
We also do not know exactly what incident in particular caused CloudFlare to about-face walk back the policy they communicated just days before later blocking KF. We can only guess that it was related to the bomb threat made by a user that was immediately taken down (sub 20min), but was still weaponised by the crowd attempting to cancel CloudFlare over their inaction.
