Free speech comes at a price.
I'm old enough to remember the Skokie Nazi march in the late 1970s. The Nazis' right to march was defended by a Jewish ACLU attorney. He wrote a book about it, Defending My Enemy. His rationale was that if they ban the Nazis today, they'll ban other people tomorrow.
He was right. The ADL and SPLC were among the groups pushing for the current wave of deplatfoming, which began in earnest in 2017 after the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" march. Although the role of social media in Trump's 2016 victory was an impetus, convincing the left that free speech had gone too far.
The first victims of deplatforming were anti-Semites, white nationalists, Holocaust deniers, and Alt Right figures. "We just want to ban the extremists," said the "anti-hate" groups.
But it didn't stop there, did it?
I do not disagree. I just got tired of dealing with them and left. I just took my online time somewhere else.
“We just want to ban the extremists,” said the “anti-hate” groups.”
AND... those wishing to ban the hate groups often become a hate group through wanton and constant violence, attacks, punishment.
What needs to happen is constitutional law and constitutional order. Which the left can’t seem to bring themselves to understand. Preferring instead, a freewheeling legal system that can bend and shape itself as required to stifle any perception of tarnishing the image and message.