To be clear, the study found that platforms banning topics succeeds in removing those topics from the platform - not necessarily from society as a whole. The st

To be clear, the study found that platforms banning topics succeeds in removing those topics from the platform - not necessarily from society as a whole. The study did not conclude that banning hateful communities off of reddit actually made those users less hateful or curbed the spread of hateful content online. If each of those banned users subsequently posted twice as much hateful content on a different platform, that still comports with the conclusions of that study.