Not to mention, allowing such reprehensible speech allows it to be open to all. Everyone can see for themselves how awful they are. Also, by allowing WBC to exist, we can monitor them as well. We can see the places they plan to picket and plan accordingly. Whereas if they were criminalized, they'd be underground and harder to monitor.
Think about it in the context of /r/fatpeoplehate. They were relatively contained on their own sub. Hardly anyone knew the place existed because no reasonable person would link to it, and anyone that did know about it spoke negatively about it. By being on Reddit's site, they are bound by reddit's rules about brigading and whatnot. Now what happened now that they've been snuffed out? Immediately they flooded other subs since they had no place to call their own; they were angry as well. They moved on to Voat which ISN'T bound by Reddit's rules. If you ask me, they're more of a threat to Reddit now; being able to coordinate invasions, brigades and whatnot without Reddit interfering.
Not to mention, allowing such reprehensible speech allows it to be open to all. Everyone can see for themselves how awful they are. Also, by allowing WBC to exist, we can monitor them as well. We can see the places they plan to picket and plan accordingly. Whereas if they were criminalized, they'd be underground and harder to monitor.
Think about it in the context of /r/fatpeoplehate. They were relatively contained on their own sub. Hardly anyone knew the place existed because no reasonable person would link to it, and anyone that did know about it spoke negatively about it. By being on Reddit's site, they are bound by reddit's rules about brigading and whatnot. Now what happened now that they've been snuffed out? Immediately they flooded other subs since they had no place to call their own; they were angry as well. They moved on to Voat which ISN'T bound by Reddit's rules. If you ask me, they're more of a threat to Reddit now; being able to coordinate invasions, brigades and whatnot without Reddit interfering.
From what I gather, they're still brigade get reddit from voat.
But I get the point. A contained cyst is better than an active infection.