It is an "uncomfortable fact" that free-speech absolutism means exactly what it says on the tin.
It only takes a little digging to discover an audit trail that proves your claims are true, while most of the other allegations being made about Moon are hotly disputed or unprovable.
I have never seen it suggested that Moon either funds the site(s) hosted or provides hosting for free - or makes any profit from the exercise - but you are right, landOFconfusion, potential donors should be aware of this "uncomfortable fact".
Free-speech absolutism has a long history on the liberal left and, until relatively recently, it was routinely defended, even extending to the rights of nazis and neo-nazis when within the law. Those who wish to take that line can still find themselves in good company, with strong arguments in favour of free speech within the law and against censorship of deplorable views that they happen to abhor.
Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis
New York Times - 28 Sept 2021
An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important.
archive.ph/www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html
Film explores why a Jewish former ACLU head defended Nazis’ right to free speech
The Times of Israel - 20 Oct 2020
In ‘Mighty Ira,’ streaming Oct. 9, activist lawyer sticks to his guns about Skokie march, a defining moment of his 34-year career — and befriends a Holocaust survivor who opposed
www.timesofisrael.com/film-explores-why-a-jewish-former-aclu-head-defended-nazis-right-to-free-speech/
Former ACLU president says censoring hate speech can backfire – just like it did in Nazi Germany
Jewish Telegraph Agency - 3 Sept 2020
Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms face increasing pressure to crack down against anti-Semitism and other forms of hate speech. This summer, the Anti-Defamation League and NAACP led a one-month corporate boycott against advertising on Facebook, and a group of British Jews led a 24-hour boycott of Twitter.
Nadine Strossen, the former head of the ACLU and a daughter of Holocaust survivors who is generally supportive of the ADL, believes such moves to censor hate speech are generally ill-advised.
www.jta.org/2020/09/03/opinion/former-aclu-president-says-censoring-hate-speech-can-backfire-just-like-it-did-in-nazi-germany
The Skokie Case: How I Came To Represent The Free Speech Rights Of Nazis
ACLU - By David Goldberger - March 2, 2020
In 1977, the ACLU of Illinois received a call from a Nazi leader complaining that his planned demonstration had been blocked. The ensuing legal battle, and the controversy around it, would test the organization’s commitment to the First Amendment.
www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/rights-protesters/skokie-case-how-i-came-represent-free-speech-rights-nazis
Why the ACLU is right to represent the Ku Klux Klan
The Guardian - 29 June 2012
Just as the ACLU safeguarded the first amendment in Skokie in the 1970s, so it should defend the KKK's free speech rights now
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/29/aclu-right-represent-ku-klux-klan
Meanwhile, "gender critical" sites, mostly run by and for women, are being targeted for censorship via internet annihilation as bastions of "fascism" and the "alt-right", for the hateful "crimes" of:
- maintaining the material reality of biological sex,
- defending the rights of women and protection of children
- cataloguing the dangerous and deplorable behaviour of certain individuals and institutions
- women talking to each other about what matters to them, often preferably absent the presence of males.
Free speech absolutism is a challenging concept. Language has power to oppress and coerce and silencing is disempowering. It is natural to wish to use language to our advantage and silence those who threaten us.
However, in practice, restrictions on speech are wielded by, and most benefit, those who dominate society and culture.
Women, females, the majority of the population but the largest minoritized class, have the most to gain from free speech absolutism. The impact is magnified because speech is both the weapon and shield of choice for women against the overpowering physicality and fiscal advantage of men.
The rebellion of #womenwontwheesht is a non-violent protest against both compelled speech and censorship, shifting the focus away from policing speech for our protection and towards pushing away barriers to liberation.
Movements for civil rights and civil liberties - including freedom of speech - arise from the downtrodden, at the grass-roots. By contrast, "Social Justice" is an astro-turfed movement of the managerial class serving corporate interests.
A whopping great clue is in the fact that social justice initiatives are driven, implemented and enforced by the university-educated, the privileged.
"Creatives" who tick the right "progressive" boxes are favoured by grant-giving bodies. Human Resources staff, people whose main qualifications are making rules for the conduct of others and disciplining those who break them, to the point of removing their means of making a living.
Politicians, police, teachers, health and social care professionals, union officials, all university-entry and indoctrinated to eradicate species-survival instincts of fairness and empathy. Police prioritising "hateful" social media posts over call-outs to active crimes of violence and burglaries. Women in prison punished for "misgendering" male inmates.
The horror is that this has cascaded down to primary school, with little children being punished by teachers for saying what they see, and mobbed by gangs of self-righteous bullies. Encouraged to inform on their parents too - anyone who cannot see shades of Hitler Youth and the Stasi in this is wilfully blind or woefully ignorant.
So, free speech:
- bad for self-described nazis (they exist and booting them off the internet will not make them go away)
- bad for closet-fascists (looking at you, so-called "antifa")
- good for women (we exist too, we are not going away and we are not shutting up either).