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It's the nazi bar analogy. The moment you allow nazis, they invited that's friends and then you can't kick them out because they can cause big trouble. The solution is not to allow nazis in the first place.
And the issue with the "99% of people" argument is, it doesn't matter what percentage of the population are decent people. If they're too many, the network effect takes place and the platform becomes too big to fail.
Do you know how many people are dictators in dictatorships? One. The leader. The rest are subjects. But that single leader is enough to make everyone's lives shitty.
So it doesn't matter what percentage of Threads/Facebook users are nazis; by being there they support the nazis they can't kick out.
The decentralized fediverse model isn't perfect, but defederation has worked so far at keeping nazis at bay. They have their little corner where they can talk all the racist shit they want, but they can't harm users of instances that have blocked them.
The real question is how much money Zuck plans to invest in moderating hate speech. I can't be sure how much, but based on the precedents, I can say it's a pretty small figure. That IS a problem.