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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by X6S1x6Okd1st on Thursday August 09, 2018 @04:14PM (#17728045)
I'd love to see an analysis of if this theory is true. There's another argument for allowing hateful speech which is that it is a containment strategy. It appears that there isn't much to that theory. An analysis of reddit's 2015 banning on r/fatpeoplehate and r/coontown did not see the hateful speech increase where 'migrants' went.

http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf

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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by s73v3r_ on Thursday August 09, 2018 @08:00PM (#17729610)
I think it's because such banning made it abundantly clear that such behavior was not welcome. So that's more to do with social norms, I guess.
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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by X6S1x6Okd1st on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:01PM (#17740183)
Why do you think that?
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