[voldacar]

Thedonald existed on reddit for quite some time and during that period, free speech survived relatively intact. Since the banning of thedonald along with hundreds of other subs, free speech has suffered, not improved, inconsistent with your hypothesis.

Also, "the paradox of tolerance" can be trotted out to justify just about any banning or censoring of someone you don't like

[cies]

Nope, it specifically covers "preaching of intolerance", that's not "just someone's speech you dont like".

Lets say I speak about gardening without pesticides, and someone with a pesticide factory does not like that speech. How do you think the "the paradox of tolerance" can be used to shut me up in this case? You can't. Case closed.

[Avamander]

There was no free speech with r/thedonald, they banned anyone that didn't agree with them. Blatantly.

[voldacar]

I was referring to the health of free speech across the site in general, I wasn't making a defense of thedonald. And 90% of political subs on reddit blatantly ban people from $opposite_side, that's just how reddit is