Online Free Speech is Being Murdered - Why You Should Care

Your words are in more danger than you realize.

Joe Garza
5 min readNov 13, 2020
Image by Thomas Ulrich from Pixabay

Free speech in the digital age is dying a slow, useless demise, and its blood is on the hands of those of you who dismiss it as mere “right wing talking points”.

This death-by-a-thousand-cuts has been going on for several years, but has recently kicked into overdrive, with razor blades being replaced by daggers and scimitars.

Here’s the latest, but certainly not the first, stab committed by professional sissies:

Freelance writer Tim Stone was recently banned from publishing on the website Rock Paper Shotgun, a UK-based website that covers PC gaming, the reason for which is a comment that he made in the comment section on the site, seen here below:

According to Stone’s contributor page on the site, he’s been writing for them since 2008, long enough for any internalized bigotry to float to the surface of his character.

Below is RPS’ statement on the matter:

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