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He's being downvoted because his comment is not constructive and is a knee jerk reaction to reading the title of the post, not because people disagree with him


I would've said that 20 years ago saying "Censorship Bad" wouldn't have been constructive, but these days with all these people against free speech, I would say it's a very constructive comment.


Are you sure? I've seen quite a few "censorship is good if it censors bad things" comments upvoted while free speech absolutists generally get downvoted into the ground.




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