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By 1925 Hitler had incited a riot / failed coup and been jailed for it, so that didn’t stop him either. It didn’t stop his ideas from spreading, correct, but the alternative (letting him speak freely in public) may well have seen an acceleration and extension of what happened in the end. You can’t outlaw an idea, but you can try and stop / slow that idea being weaponised.
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Clearly banning Hilter from public speaking in 1925 didn’t stop him or his ideas being a problem.
The best argument I heard for not banning Trump from Twitter was:
“Let him speak, enforce the law - prosecute him for inciting violence”
As an ideal I can’t fault that but it ignores some practicalities specific to Trump (it’s not a crime in the US to incite violence and the President has immunity to prosecution).