How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US
&gt;The obvious counter-argument is silencing them strengthens their argument and makes them a martyr. I don&#x27;t buy that argument at all, it&#x27;s far more dangerous to allow them to indoctrinate and appeal to all the fringe disenfranchised youth which they&#x27;ve become frighteningly effective at. In any case it&#x27;s clear reddit can be used for good like in this article, I&#x27;m just not so sure it&#x27;s a net positive to society as another poster argued.<p>This is the road to censorship, burning books, and confiscating servers. Some people are fine with censorship, because they imagine people who think like them as the censors.<p>You can only fight ideas with better ideas. Kicking them out and silencing them, says to them you can&#x27;t compete. You can&#x27;t offer them an argument as to why they should tolerate foreigners, other races, etc. It seems obvious to you now, but the ideals of tolerance and equality took years and years of discourse to dominate public consciousness.