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Sumo
If your objective is to stop neofascism from spreading what is going to be more effective
a. Remove them from major platforms and prosecute in extreme cases, severely limiting their ability to recruit, disseminate and organise
b. Just kinda let them do their thing in the open so we know who they are
We are currently at option b for the most part and it isn't working. YouTube is particularly bad for it, the comment sections are full of literal nazis and their algorithm constantly recommends alt-right propaganda no matter what your viewing history is. Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens have each been cited as inspirations in the manifestos of separate mass murderers. How much more white supremacist violence will it take before we accept that the current laissez-faire approach is not working?
You're right, of course, that criminalising the symptoms doesn't eliminate the hatred. But until we can address the more complicated underlying societal issues it seems obvious to me that quarantining it is preferable to doing fuck all.