> In a sense, Reddit has made these users (from banned subreddits) someone else’s problem. To be clear, from a macro persepctive, Reddit’s actions likely did not make the internet safer or less hateful.

section 6.6 of the paper.

I argue that this paper capstones the pathway to concentrate, sequester, fester and finally eradicate hate subs from a single platform. It just moves elsewhere and then begins to adapt.

Also - Suppose the study was turned on its moral head, and people applied its lesson to bannign subs focused on "social equality", "improving one self", "making a better world" = what would the implications of that be.

In the hands of an attacker, what does this paper say?

Even Voat has had to draw a line in the sand regarding content and began banning communities: https://voat.co/v/announcements/163288

Better to contain it at least. I'm all for free speech, but those people (and the general immaturity) made me leave reddit for good.

It's too bad that they didn't have access to data about other sites like 4chan and Voat to see if they saw an increase correlated to the amount of people who left Reddit.

and Gab.ai and 9Gag.