>>We will have to agree to disagree. Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. can and do influence a particular ideological narrative - a very dangerous precedent imho (and leaving aside for the moment the addictiveness built into these social media platforms by their designers on purpose). I believe in free speech and will defend the speech even of those I fundamentally disagree with. This is a principle. Censorship does not remove anti-social behaviour and thinking. It only drives it underground.
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>No. I disagree to disagree. :)

OK :)

>Somehow I feel more comfortable with Nazis underground then pa-trolling the streets. This is one of better ideas in the German Grundgesetz. Free speech is limited, where it endangers the society. Reading the words as they are written, it is meant against the left, but since it is a law, it could mean Nazis as well.

I think exposing problems so they can be addressed is better than not knowing they exist or knowing what they are up to.

>The one and only way to let them talk is to answer them straight. But be prepared against all the tricks and lies. You will not change the Nazi. But you will limit his influence to the audience. If you let them talk unopposed, they will win the hearts of the audience. That is what we do right now and here. Fight advertising a Nazi platform. Say that we dislike it.

I agree - "answer them straight" - as you say. The solution to anti-social ideas is to expose them for what they are; anti-social, destructive, not in the interest of society at large, etc.. But that is done in the open, with intelligence, with insight, with knowledge, with education.

The main problem I can see is the danger of exposing impressionable minds to radical ideas. How to solve that? I don’t know but I feel the hammer of censorship contains its own dangers because it confers power to a few. And power is addictive and it corrupts and ... you know the rest :) I believe that there are far more elegant solutions if we apply ourselves to the problem. Censorship is just too easy a hammer to wield.