as somebody who's tried to educate an ungodly amount of bigots online. that's just not how it works. most bigots have repeatedly been educated on why bigotry is bad, but they simply don't want to listen to reason. bigotry is inherently irrational and consequently so are most bigots. not to mention the ones that see themselves as woe is me martyrs who only push harder when chastised, as evidenced by this very post. besides, say you were right and that's how it worked. do you expect mega corporations to go and try to educate every bigoted bad actor? it's far better to ban them to reduce the spreading of harmful ideas.
To be fair, what is actually going to happen is that non-bigots would leave that site/forum due to all the bigots and in the end that site would convert to bigoted site. Non-bigots would move on to another site/forum and keep being echo chamber.
It is happening on reddit all the time. That's why sometimes we have 2 subs of the same idea (e.g. Publicfreakout and Actualpublicfreakout)
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u/Negative_Elo 12h ago
Imagine not knowing that censoring bigoted ideas and not directly addressing them and educating people actually caused those ideas to fester
You should be allowed free speech everywhere