I agree. People acting like it's just saying that "Hive is open to anyone" are wrong, because, you are making it NOT OPEN to anyone who is a minority. People of color, leftists, anarchists of any variety besides ancaps, LGBTQ+, immigrants, etc. - all feel unwelcome in a space where nazis are welcome. And you can "mute" but not "block" here, which makes them feel extra unsafe.
It's bad enough that lefties in general feel like the crypto space is not for them - I am ALWAYS trying to welcome people here who are leftists like me and they all think that I'm crazy for it - because I feel like, crypto is how we take power away from the big banks. That's a goal we ALL have, right? To decentralize power and control? But they ALREADY feel unwelcome because of so many rightist attitudes they've seen held by crypto enthusiasts who are just capitalists looking for the next big investment and who don't care about the social good that can be done with it. I talk to them about banking the unbanked and taking power away from international banking companies and so forth, and they're like ...yeah, ok, but (points at some rich, public jerk who's been gushing about Bitcoin or whatever).
"Open to everyone" does need to mean "not for hate speech," or else you really AREN'T open to everyone. You're only open to those who don't feel threatened by the haters.
Side note: I do think we need a "block" option here for safety, not just a "mute." And not just due to politics. Nobody is going to post on a forum where their stalker ex is going to be able to read their blog even if they block that person.
I don't like hate speech! Point.
But my questions are more about if we need to take others bad examples to marketing Hive