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> If that intent is demonstrable, there's no reason to assist them in their goals.

But lacking any chance of success, there is also no reason to allow their existence to spoil my goals; that is, liberalism.

I feel like some people read Popper and advocate Censorship as almost the last tool, whereas some people read him and advocate it as almost the first!

>>Feepin+(OP)
I personally think of no-platforming as almost the last tool. Where I think a lot of people disagree is here:

lacking any chance of success...

Fascism can take over a government faster than people think, and we're in a global cycle of democracies dallying with fascism again. This is not a safe time.

>>shadow+Pn1
I don't think fascist takeovers of governments are that hard to anticipate; I don't think they're likely in most of the cases that people advocate censorship for. Admittedly this may be hindsight bias.