I think that stance is more common than we are led to believe. (censorship on sites like reddit removing every such instance)

If I were to post my comment on reddit, it would be swiftly removed for "hate speech".

I think the groups acting in bad-faith are playing the angle of turning negative reception to their toxic behavior into a martyr situation. The best strategy seems to be to passively ignore them whenever it pops up.

One thing that really pissed off reddit was when I commented in a political thread about banning lewd homosexual books in children's libraries, I said nothing should be banned, even though it's grossly inappropriate. The reason is that they're using it as a shock factor to get people to advocate for banning so they can use it in their persecution strategy. They tried banning books like Huckleberry Finn, and To kill a Mockingbird, and that only made them more popular. I say ban nothing, leave it all out, and eventually the novelty will wear off, and the toxic groups won't get the publicity they crave.

Yeah, that got me banned within a minute of commenting that. Not even spamming meatspin or tubgirl got banned that quickly. I can tell that response really scared them.