text: "Basic rule - freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences."
  
  Actually, that's precisely what it means ... as a general principle.  
  
  It always blows my mind away how many people fall back on the strict legal interpretation, so that they can justify mob behaviour that shutters expression, justify organizations other than the government shuttering expression, etc. When you work that hard to justify cutting people out of public life, you're no free speech advocate, not in any fashion.
  
  I don't care if it's Pinochet shutting down newspapers, the Church hauling Giordano Bruno off as a heretic, a local cable company threatening a lawsuit against former employees to keep their nefarious business practices off the record, or a Twitter campaign trying to cost someone their job because they expressed an unpopular opinion.  If your goal is to not to express yourself, but to shut someone else up ... you're a censor.