It’s an example of one of the objections made to the idea of banning troublesome users or communities: they’ll just go elsewhere, so why bother? The practice has led sites like StormFront to seek shelter at dismal ports like off-brand hosts and small social networks pitching their tolerance of certain types of free speech being “censored” by others. The policing of hate speech online has become a flash point for many a flame war, these past few months especially, as white nationalists, neo-nazis and others with abhorrent but strictly speaking quite legal viewpoints struggle with being banned repeatedly from the internet’s biggest platforms. But a new study shows that, for Reddit at least, it has had lasting positive effects. The move was, at the time, derided by some as pointless, akin to shooing criminals away from one neighborhood only to trouble another. It seems like just the other day that Reddit finally banned a handful of its most hateful and deplorable subreddits, including r/coontown and r/fatpeoplehate.
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