Thread:MondlichtPanda/@comment-3452092-20191209233429/@comment-3452092-20200125183628

Andisimon wrote: That's why I wrote "in case of". Although I would not say that calling peope who play a game are "losers" still counts as freedom of speech.... It's possible they start vandalizing either here or there and then I would like people to be prepared It absolutely is freedom of speech. Thing about freedom of speech is it doesn't exempt you from anything except punishment by the government. It doesn't mean that private individuals can't run you off, but it does mean that a government run and/or funded institution, such as a school, cannot tell you to be quiet. It doesn't mean that individuals in the government cannot tell you to be silent, but it does mean that they have no ability to make you silent, because they cannot use the power of the government to back them up. It doesn't mean that individuals cannot call you out for being a jerk nor does it mean that non government funded organizations (which last I checked fandom was) cannot kick you off of their platform. But freedom of speech? Yeah, it's covered under that. You can be a jerk under freedom of speech. Society dictates whether or not they will accept you as part of it and being ostracized is your punishment when they decide no, not fines and jail time.

And yeah, we should be on guard, because it does seem likely that they will come here and while freedom of speech doesn't apply here (well unless they start making threats of violence or something, then it probably does because when speech starts turning into other things, that's when it crosses the line), fandom rules do and if they come here and break those, we have the right to deal with them according to those rules.