cesspit

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"Without moderation, platforms become a cesspit of misogyny, racial hatred and antisemitism, without any conceivable benefit for society. Holocaust denial is not free speech."

From Salon

The BBC is supposed to be one bulwark against the slide into a US-style new media cesspit - it is so self destructive for them to do this.

From BBC

Sanitation in medieval towns relied on cesspits - holes in the ground used for faeces and household waste.

From BBC

In medieval Cambridge, many citizens subsisted in squalor, living alongside livestock in cramped cottages and dumping the household’s excrement into communal holes in the ground called cesspits.

From Science Magazine

Mrs Stewart's death had been treated as epilepsy-related until her husband was later found guilty of murdering his fiancee Ms Bailey, whose body he had dumped in a cesspit at their Royston home.

From BBC