It was meant to be the "Trial of the Century," shining a light into the hate-filled corners of British society, exposing demonic right wing plots, and neutralising the Nazi threat with astounding revelations and damning evidence.
When it comes to banning people and groups, and shutting down points of view, precedents are important, and so is moral justification. Powerful as the anarcho-tyrannic state governments and corporate social media companies of the West are, they realize that to overuse their power is to lose their power, and so, when they clamp down, they like to grease the wheels with a little moral unguent and emotional manipulation.
While cycling along a Tokyo dyke in a storm, Colin Liddell, the Chief Editor of Alternative Right, discusses a recent debate about Stormerism (the tendency of some Alt-Righters to LARP as full-blown Hollywood Nazis). This is then linked to the recent banning by the British government of National Action, a small group that employed Stormerist tactics. He also draws attention to the interesting fact that where Neo-Nazi/ Stormerist excesses are directly banned by the state, nationalist movements tend to do rather well, and where they aren't they tend to do badly.