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Banning an extremist doesn't make that person less extreme. What it DOES do is close up the pipeline.
If you kick extremists off of large scale platforms, they won't have large scale platforms to do their outreach and recruiting. Reducing their reach to obscure forums doesn't make them dissapear, but it means random people who might lean that wat are much less likely to find them.
Stormfront will always be full of people who agree with stormfront. Bur their user base is a tiny fraction of what Twitter has. A nazi on twitter can reach billions of people and create more nazis. A nazi on Stormfront is just preaching to the choir.
Also, for the record, Laura got kicked off of everywhere because she was already an extremist.
Yeah that is a nice theory only it goes directly against what we've seen after years of doing this
We banned all the people we didn't like (and be honest now, most bans are not because of extremism, they're because of opinions that slightly misalign with the moderators) and now we have people who were slightly more right than we liked going to other places where they can talk, and these places will be much more right than that person is, and the person becomes more radicalized
You didn't close a pipeline, you actually created one