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Re:Google announces workshops to tackle the spread of hate s... by coldtea on Monday April 24, 2017 @01:11PM (#14186028)
>Of course blocking neo nazi trash doesn't "give them credibility"--that is a total non-sequitor.

Yeah, because fringe groups never got any gravitas from being persecuted (or perceived as persecuted).

In fact that's exactly what gave Hitler early publicity: his imprisonment after his failed coup -- which let him write a popular then book to detail his persecutions from the state and his "enemies".

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Re:Google announces workshops to tackle the spread of hate s... by vivekd on Monday April 24, 2017 @01:30PM (#14186188)
Not more than they would if they weren't persecuted. I am certain neo-nazis would much prefer to spread their hate as publicly as possible through Sunday morning cartoons and flyers and ads, and the fact that we as a society have restricted them from doing so has weakened, not strengthened them.

Maybe some people find a morbid attracting to them as a result of them being forbidden just for this reason. But for the large majority, this has not happened.

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