My read is that no one on Hubski feels our cyclical peccadilloes are about freedom of speech. The founders at team hubski are staunchly free speech and the fact that there are no moderators on here says a lot about individual determinism. The problems we face all have to do with kindness of speech, not freedom of speech. I think we'd all also agree that you should be "allowed" to be as nasty as you want, but that everyone else should have the tools to not have to listen to you. This is where we're lagging - we don't have adequate controls to provide everyone the "nastiness filter" they want, when they want it. The gap between "you're a dick" and "your dickishness has caused you to disappear from everyone's feed" is large enough that several valued community members have fallen into it.