(March 23, 2019 at 2:52 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The people most likely to follow the ideas outlined in the manifesto probably already have access to it or they know how to get their hands on it. It's already out there and there's no way to put that genie back in the bottle.
A ban also adds the allure of 'forbidden fruit'.
Censoring it isn't a good plan.
Again, I get the "forbidden fruit" argument, but this isn't the same thing.
It is also illegal to distribute plans on bomb making materials or how to poison your neighbor or spouse. That is more the context of the intent. If you want to argue will this tactic work, that is a different subject. I am only arguing intent.
Again, there was a time in America when bigotry allowed lynchings of blacks, even to the point there were mass productions of post cards, like you would buy on a vacation of mountain view, or Hawaiian sunset today, but with blacks, back then hanging from trees. People would market and sell those postcards as if it was like going to the beach.
Hitler allowed tons of speech that lead to the Night Of Broken Glass. And we all know how that turned out.
