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It's all about money.

For the most part (leaving aside harassment, actual crimes) there's nothing stopping you from setting up a personal website to post photos of your nuts on the internet.

But all of these platforms are about making money selling ads, so they are going to make policies that are advertiser friendly.

If you want the internet of 1996, you can still have that, but you're going to have to run your own server. Most of the "hackers" on this site are not prepared to do what the old-school web required.



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