Yeah, the purging was needed. You need only see the chat in their free MOBA to know how long they let the alt right gather with impunity in their games.
You hear people make the excuse that losing subscribers isn’t worth the ban, but Heroes of the Storm is free and it’s a safe bet you can log in at any time to see someone spamming epithets.
These are simple minds that believe “having to look at something they don’t like” is a great oppression, which is why they want to keep their civil war statues up and cover their cars with stickers and flags.
For the local tv station, no less.