Yes, there's always that argument - like with the KKK, giving them publicity usually simply heap humiation on them as they are shown up as the pathetic losers they are. But there always has to be the possibility to ban the worst kind of things (like those lunatics who call young, disenfranchised Muslim kids to violence and hatrid) of incitement. But it does create another problem, or at least give another dimension to it: "Qui Custodiet Ipso Custodies?" (or for us comic book fans: "who watches the watchmen?")... every power the state must use to protect us can equally be used to harm us.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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