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Originally Posted by elphenor
nah we've learned you can only cut these guy's influence by deplatforming them
hippy free speech marketplace of idea **** is naive
what sense does it make to argue with fascists, they'll say literally anything, they don't care
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All you are going to do is keep playing wack a mole with these people. It's not about the individual. A person like Tate exists because of the niche he found and exploited. He wasn't the first and won't be the last, and banning someone like let's say Alex Jones has done absolutely zero to get people to stop believing in the kinds of conspiracy theories he pushes. So I do think you're quite overstating how effective this method is at actually battling harmful ideas. Not to say arguing with them is necessarily going to yield better results, but at least it would yield better content.