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by hanbura 3133 days ago
Those people wouldn't vanish from Twitter, they would just choose a slightly more subtle username.
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Correct. They would use more cryptic slurs which would be used in context and would be not easily differentiable from common words.

You can't just silence hate speech with censorship. More generally, you can't silence ideas. If you try, you normally end up in a worse situation.