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If you don’t believe in free speech on principle, I’m sure China and North Korea will take you, because you don’t belong in a Western democracy

I believe in the freedom of the people I agree with to speak, this argument is obviously absurd.

which is demonstrably not true? that belief in free speech assumes the right arguments winning, or that the right arguments win?

That the right arguments win.

Hell, we can look at Voat and Gab as well for example of sites where absolute free speech as a principle has failed to result in any sort of good outcome.

Conveniently these sites are ignored or handwaved away or are somehow only because of censorship.

Yeah I used to use Voat right after /r/conspiracy started getting scared, things were civil and small scale and I had some fruitful discussions, that went to hell once the racist subs started getting hit.