On the other hand, at what point do we accept that we have different viewpoints and live and let live?
When society gets to a point that it decides internet access is a basic necessity, and not a luxury that can be shut off by a company when a random middle manager decides.
To use your example, DS is a terrible thing. But its electric provider will never shut off its juice for being too controversial.
Its water will not be cut off because of its views.
Its heating oil fuel will keep being delivered, because the oil distributor hasn't decided to impose its leaders' morals on others, and punish those it disagrees with by withholding its service.
As long as the internet is "optional," then the vast majority and chattering masses won't complain about a small group of people cutting off smaller groups of people.
I can't wrap my brain around the notion of the water company shutting off an extremist group's taps.
All those examples are far simpler in their structure than the internet though. Because so far I've not seen anyone actually banned from the internet. I've seen people banned from private websites, I've seen people banned from fund-raising platforms, I've even seen people banned from hosting companies but none of those are analogous to having your taps turned off.
When society gets to a point that it decides internet access is a basic necessity, and not a luxury that can be shut off by a company when a random middle manager decides.
To use your example, DS is a terrible thing. But its electric provider will never shut off its juice for being too controversial.
Its water will not be cut off because of its views.
Its heating oil fuel will keep being delivered, because the oil distributor hasn't decided to impose its leaders' morals on others, and punish those it disagrees with by withholding its service.
As long as the internet is "optional," then the vast majority and chattering masses won't complain about a small group of people cutting off smaller groups of people.
I can't wrap my brain around the notion of the water company shutting off an extremist group's taps.