Here’s the problem - debate is essential in the real world, while in cyberspace it works for a time, and then devolves into either agitation or mediocrity. It’s too easy for someone to be inflammatory and use word bombs when they don’t get their way, because a wall exists between them and the one they are goading.
Be careful for what you wish - the government will attempt a Real ID and the forum to go along with it. “Going Galt” from Free Republic is not the answer. Nor is even thinking about a withdrawal from society when the pendulum is beginning to swing our way.
I don’t believe that needs to be any significant problem. This will not be a ‘free speech’ platform for demagoguery, it will be a moderated, serious debate. Moderation does not imply censorship, it means to impose structure and discipline.