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No, it means "you have freedom of speech, but I don't have to pay for your megaphone".


In this specific case, maybe, but in general that doesn't seem to be true. In the case of Brendan Eich, Elia Schito, and other random developers, it's "you have freedom of speech, but I don't like what you are saying (or doing) so I'm going to gather a mob and destroy some aspect of your life to teach you a lesson"


I think what happened to Eich et al is a perfect example of "the remedy to bad speech is more speech."

Everything that happened to Eich was a result of people organizing speech and associating with each other freely to amplify the power of their voices.


That's not what the XKCD says - it literally says yelled at, boycotted or banned




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