Why Twitter's Alt-Right Banning Campaign Is Alt-Right's Best Recruitment Tool

Some countries do have laws against hate speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Canada

I generally agree that by driving them underground, you lose the ability to challenge them, but that has to be weighed against the degree to which they are permitted to spread their ideas by being allowed to spew their rhetoric with impunity.

I don't know that being kicked off twitter will necessarily mean that they grow - but - it will mean that twitter no longer holds a moral responsibility for enabling them.

I think that's a fair choice to make.

> the solution to bad speech is more good speech

But this isn't true. Sure, in many cases it is, but once we enter the realm of hate speech and ideologies that pose a threat to the survival of people, good speech is no longer sufficient if you're still allowing the bad speech to continue. If a white supremacist is spouting off their nonsense, you cannot counter that with "good speech", because the people who buy into that ideology aren't going to be swayed by anything you can say. But allowing them to continue espousing their ideology threatens people of other races, because this creates an atmosphere where people think that kind of speech is acceptable, which leads to other worse problems.