> I don't think banning anything provocative is a good strategy anymore. If anything, the triumph of Internet-logic over mainstream logic has involved a wide v

> I don't think banning anything provocative is a good strategy anymore. If anything, the triumph of Internet-logic over mainstream logic has involved a wide variety of people being willing to go out of their way to find provocative content. Which users do you think bring in more ad-revenue? > In a lot of ways, the broad mainstream seems like and often is bland, feel-good propaganda of its own - a product of both the cold war and media consolidation. It's risk adverse content that goes out of it's way to avoid forming anything close to an opinion or offending anyone. I agree with your sentiment that banning any controversial discussion they essentially just move it somewhere else they cannot police, but I don't think those discussions are of much value to them because of the nature of advertising.