The problem is that a lot of people actively engaging in hate speech and harassment, or actively supporting it, regularly blur the lines between ‘free speech’ and hate speech, and have a distorted worldview where they represent themselves as a persecuted minority, when really they are just flagrantly violating rules and need to be banned immediately.
So I think it is very necessary, and very needed to have a healthy skepticism of people who claim to just be interested in free speech, because to those who have been following the modern evolution of trolling and harassment, those concepts have been utilized as a weapon by trolls who want to engage in hate speech and harassment.
You aren’t talking about hate speech or calls for violence, so I would think you ought to be fine. But trolls who engage in coordinated harassment and try to call THAT behavior “free speech” are the #1 problem to watch out for.
The problem is that a lot of people actively engaging in hate speech and harassment, or actively supporting it, regularly blur the lines between ‘free speech’ and hate speech, and have a distorted worldview where they represent themselves as a persecuted minority, when really they are just flagrantly violating rules and need to be banned immediately.
So I think it is very necessary, and very needed to have a healthy skepticism of people who claim to just be interested in free speech, because to those who have been following the modern evolution of trolling and harassment, those concepts have been utilized as a weapon by trolls who want to engage in hate speech and harassment.
You aren’t talking about hate speech or calls for violence, so I would think you ought to be fine. But trolls who engage in coordinated harassment and try to call THAT behavior “free speech” are the #1 problem to watch out for.