I'm a big believer in free speech, but by no means an absolutist.
There are some cases where content moderation is necessary. We want to provide a good experience for most users, and that means drawing some lines.
Here's what we'll remove at the platform level:
- Spam
- Content inciting violence or hate speech
- Pornography
- AI slop
- Irrelevant or low quality content
- Copyrighted content
Ouro is a platform for high signal content. If something doesn't meet that bar, it may get removed.
But it won't be a dictatorship. We're only stepping in for the most egregious cases.
For everything else, it's up to you.
Team admins are the champions of their own communities. They set the tone, they decide what belongs. Same goes for organization admins. Your space, your rules.
We're not here to police every conversation or curate every post. We're here to give you the tools to build the kind of community you want.
Why this matters
This isn't just a business decision. It's a belief about how progress happens.
Science doesn't advance through consensus. It advances through debate, disagreement, and the willingness to be wrong. The best ideas survive because they're tested against competing ones. That's how understanding grows.
When you shut down conversation, you shut down discovery. You freeze knowledge in place.
The same goes for any field. Art, philosophy, business, technology. The breakthroughs come from people who were willing to say something different, even when it was uncomfortable.
Ouro should be a place where that can happen. Where ideas can collide and evolve. Where you can share your perspective without fear of being silenced for having the "wrong" opinion.
That's not the same as tolerating everything. Some things genuinely don't belong. But the bar should be high, and the default should be open.