About Free Speech and Notd
We believe in free speech. Anyone should be able to say what they want. But we didn't build Notd so people can broadcast to the world how much they hate someone, or some race or other group of people, or that they're going to go to someone's home and rape and kill them. And we also didn't build it so people can make stuff up or spread disinformation. There are plenty of places that allow that, so nobody needs us to give them a megaphone. Also, since this isn't a "free" site, nobody should be expected to pay for that kind of vitriol (apparently that's the price of letting advertisers pay for your news), so we don't want to be part of that.
Besides not wanting to be a channel for hate and propaganda, we also believe that kind of content would diminish the value of other writing here. If you went to a restaurant where people regularly got food poisoning from their hamburgers, you probably still wouldn't want to eat their chicken or salads, and would go elsewhere.
So we intend to keep that kind of content off Notd. It's not going to be easy, and it may take some time for us to fully deploy a system that accomplishes this, but that's our intent.