YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
When I, a white young boy, grew up in The South and saw the Klan, my father taught me to never do business with them, never enable their behavior, never let their organization rent rooms from venues I may own, and to decline all of their business even if they were paying extra to be your customer.<p>For as long as he could remember, and his father before him, the Klan and other fringe organizations would always cry and shed tears about how they were being pushed to the edge and ostracized from the local communities. Most of the town ignored these common pleas. We knew how to deal with them and ignore them, we had our inoculated culture. A few businesses were locally known to be &quot;Klan friendly&quot;, but it should surprise no one that they are not rich mega-corps.<p>It seems that in the internet age, this sort of culture of inoculation has not been passed on to the outside world communities, though the far-right ideologies may have. It is <i>normal</i> to decline the business of people you don&#x27;t want to do business with. It is <i>normal</i> for it to be the fringe believers -- the ones that by their own choice are pushing themselves to live on that fringe. It is the simple free-market economy of supply and demand telling them that their demand is not necessary.<p>However, my father also taught me to be careful with this pushing of the fringe. It is a delicate balance of liberty with liberty-destroying ideology. The paradox of tolerance, etc. It should be very closely watched.<p>It is a <i>win</i> for the far-right to have y&#x27;all here on HN &quot;disagree with them but still believe they should be here and not on the fringe&quot;. They will shed tears in public and privately rejoice at the welcoming change. It is a grant of liberty they suddenly inherited with tech to have had such a huge audience and defenders of their speech on private platforms all this time. It is only now that the culture of inoculation is catching up.<p>We should watch it closely &amp; carefully though. We shouldn&#x27;t be shedding tears for them.