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True. But those with big followings ping to the top and it's easy to block users. Just like Instagram, you choose who you want to follow on Twitter.Those platforms have an interest in keeping as many people engaged as possible to the site. Allowing any speech at all can have consequences for the small minority to make the place undesirable. This would be on two different fronts though, one being if the users are forced to interact with that group in someway which isn’t usually the case if there’s a block feature or one being they are allowing the hosting of a belief that could lead to radicalization and possible violence. For example, when you say any speech, we aren’t talking about something outside of the law, right? Like “I want to kill x”?
Threats and the normal subjects that aren't protected from free speech will apply: obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats. Most of these can be objectively enforced.