Again, though -- how do you propose silencing people in such a way that it would work any better?
Unless you're proposing extrajudicial action (e.g., have individual Concerned Citizens take it upon themselves to shoot or otherwise somehow shut down the people who advocate terrible things), this silencing is going to have to be done through laws and courts and people already in authority. And ... how, exactly, are we going to get the laws and courts and people already in authority to (a) agree that said silencing should be done, and (b) follow through with doing it, when we can't even get them to follow through with doing what the law currently calls for?
(Also: being better at tidying up after abuses have happened does have an effect on preventing future abuses, as people see they won't be permitted to get away with it. I would say "or that's the theory", except that the inverse very clearly works in practice: when people see that others can get away with something, they're likelier to do it themselves.)
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Unless you're proposing extrajudicial action (e.g., have individual Concerned Citizens take it upon themselves to shoot or otherwise somehow shut down the people who advocate terrible things), this silencing is going to have to be done through laws and courts and people already in authority. And ... how, exactly, are we going to get the laws and courts and people already in authority to (a) agree that said silencing should be done, and (b) follow through with doing it, when we can't even get them to follow through with doing what the law currently calls for?
(Also: being better at tidying up after abuses have happened does have an effect on preventing future abuses, as people see they won't be permitted to get away with it. I would say "or that's the theory", except that the inverse very clearly works in practice: when people see that others can get away with something, they're likelier to do it themselves.)