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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
"What about the non-offensive posts on Stormfront?"
C'mon man, WTF.
As I said earlier, I can see a justification for banning links from a place like Stormfront in an effort to keep them obscure. That is obviously not relevant to Breitbart. And, as I said earlier, if Stormfront gained the same prominence as Breitbart, I would make the same arguments against blanket banning.
Look, I get that this is a somewhat symbolic point. You can make any point you want to by simply block-quoting Breitbart instead of linking to it. My position is that a political forum like this should try to attract people across the main parts of the political spectrum. Isn't that a big part of the purpose of this forum, to talk to people with a different political perspective? Neo-nazis are mostly irrelevant and so there is little loss to discussion if they don't feel welcome. The increase in signal and the more welcoming atmosphere for vulnerable groups can even potentially justify banning neo-nazi links because doing so has such little loss. However, if banning Breitbart and similar decisions causes mainstream non-trollish GOP posters to also not be willing to post here, that seems to me a significant cost, and posters should have a say in whether we should pay it.