> Edit: I may misunderstand what a green name on Hacker News means. Are you a moderator, or a VIP?

Account less than 2 weeks old.

> mentholated flamebait

The whole discussion aside, that's one of the funnier things I've read about HN as a platform, and I've been here quite a while.

Very few people on the pro free speech side are saying they should be given soap boxes for free. On the other hand the "protected right to our thoughts and words" is under major assault as my examples show. Redirecting the debate from the later to the former could be confusion born out of ignorance or be bad faith.

They aren’t a mod, it’s a brand new account they made 18 minutes ago to shitpost you.