the first 15 years yes. when it was regular people with their own websites they paid for with their own money. you couldn't really tell a guy what he could or couldn't say when he was paying his own money. all you could do was take his site down, and it didn't happen that much because hosts were slicing their own throats getting rid of paying customers. yet that shit started to happen with increasing frequency in about 2005. blogs were the start of the downfall. they would host them for free. so you could give up your own website and move over to a blog host for free. then youtube became the free video host. everything was free, until you had to pay the ultimate price. some cocksucker complained, you go taken down. terms of service. tos we used to call it. tossed was getting kicked off.  looking back that was a big mistake. now you say what they tell you to say or you're gone. the net is a rotting corpse and has been for the last 15 years.
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