Meta (lemmy.one)

The "free speech even if you don't like it" shtick is very romantic and reasonable sounding, but it ignores how extremism spreads and escalates.

The far-right have spent a lot of time and money figuring out how to best spread their shitty ideology and have learned what every other cult has -- the softest targets are the disillusioned, the deeply mentally ill, the idiots and the kids.

They share stories about how they became radicalised and they all read much the same -- they read the memes, dipped a toe into the "alt-light" and then let upvotes and algorithms funnel them into mask off Nazism, cheering on domestic terrorists.

I dont know (nor care) if you're platforming them because you're ignorant of how it works or because you know exactly how it works but I won't be a part of any instance that tolerates scumbags like that.

Your argument may as well be "maybe the children should decide if they want to be groomed and molested, instead of parents and police deciding for them".