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Censorship, and especially from a private company, doesn’t sound like the solution. If they are breaking some law bring them to justice. It’s not Twitter’s job to decide who gets to say what, is it?

This sounds reasonable, but doesn't match the facts: these groups have been on the rise precisely because they've been able to use these platforms for communication and recruitment. We shouldn't give them power just to avoid playing into their narrative; in fact, the reason they push this narrative so hard is to maintain that power.

It validates that narrative, but that must be weighed against how access to platforms allows them to influence the dominant narrative, especially where kids etc are concerned.

The YouTube recommendation engine is a far bigger culprit. It doesn't take many clicks to go from fairly innocuous, but kid-popular stuff like H3H3 or PewDiePie to one anti-sjw or cultural war video and then the recommendation engine will hand hold them right down the right wing extremism tunnel (or continually show up until they do)