Who cares about downvotes? >My biggest concern is that this crackdown on a crackpot will set off one of his high-functioning, mentally ill fans to pull a Timot

Who cares about downvotes? >My biggest concern is that this crackdown on a crackpot will set off one of his high-functioning, mentally ill fans to pull a Timothy McVeigh type of vigilante response on one of the companies who have canned him in the last 24 hours. Is my concern unwarranted? It's not unwarranted. But nor should our society walk on eggshells for fear of upsetting these people. It would give a lot of power to a very extreme minority... and probably not a minority that can be expected to be responsible with any power...