I disagree with all of this. The people attacking Pao are most likely bored teenagers jumping on a bandwagon. To bring neocon political ideology into it is a bit of a stretch. The neocon political movement is passe at this point anyway. Everything is running towards cultural liberalism and corporate cronyism. I don't think anyone wants a "war with china". That's crazy talk. Also, what's wrong with shunning fatpeoplehate people or others who derive pleasure from insulting and ridiculing other people? Free speech or not it's juvenile and ignorant. If that's the extent of what you're doing with your free speech then you're making things way worse than Pao could by reigning in all the annoying teens that get off on hating other people.
Agree with you, but if Pao actually cared about cleaning up reddit, she'd ban SRS, coontown, theredpill, etc. Edit - Sorry for quad posting. Didn't realize the bad gateway error still pushed the post through. I assume we're talking about Ellen Pao here. If not, sorry!