> It does not solve that person thinking bigoted things, but it does help prevent them from turning other people into bigots.
I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion. Is it your belief that we are actually capable of silencing bigots? Keep in mind that the largest TV network in the US is Fox News, which is more-or-less openly bigoted. Bigots are capable of writing their own publications and building their own websites.
And I'll just save everyone's time by pre-emptively shooting down that dumb study of Reddit which censorship proponents frequently cite[1]; there's absolutely no evidence that those users didn't simply move over to Voat.
Put yourself in their shoes: if someone tried to censor anti-bigotry speech, wouldn't that mobilize you to find different avenues of speech and speak all the louder? What makes you think that bigots can't or won't do (or haven't already done) the same thing? On the contrary, trying to silence people is more likely to radicalize them than actually succeed in silencing them.
I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion. Is it your belief that we are actually capable of silencing bigots? Keep in mind that the largest TV network in the US is Fox News, which is more-or-less openly bigoted. Bigots are capable of writing their own publications and building their own websites.
And I'll just save everyone's time by pre-emptively shooting down that dumb study of Reddit which censorship proponents frequently cite[1]; there's absolutely no evidence that those users didn't simply move over to Voat.
Put yourself in their shoes: if someone tried to censor anti-bigotry speech, wouldn't that mobilize you to find different avenues of speech and speak all the louder? What makes you think that bigots can't or won't do (or haven't already done) the same thing? On the contrary, trying to silence people is more likely to radicalize them than actually succeed in silencing them.
[1] http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf