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Great comment. I hadn't even thought of how years of the admins' appeasement brought them to this situation. If they nipped these communities in the bud, they'd have never become such a powerful user base. But yes, the "free speech" argument never held up for me. People hiding behind "free speech" are essentially saying a publisher has an obligation to publish their content, which limits the publisher's freedom of expression. I understand that publishers as gatekeepers can be a problem when the means of publishing are privately controlled, but I don't think this is the case with a single website on the Internet. These people can go to other websites, they can create their own, and they are free to spread their messages some other way.