Because of the "consequences" part. (This is the stupidest thing Randall Munroe has ever said.) https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/ Because he was s

Because of the "consequences" part. (This is the stupidest thing Randall Munroe has ever said.) https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/ Because he was so successfully un-personed, and it was basically because he was hurting people's "feels." If that's the way one does "Free Speech," it's just crappy. Get your hands on Manufacturing Consent -- If your press is technically free, but it still fits the propaganda model then it's not really free. If society supports free speech within the law, but huge swathes of private life extract huge consequences, it's not free speech. In that case people are being suppressed, not convinced, and both good and bad ideas are being suppressed. That kind of society is authoritarian, not liberal.