[asabjorn]

I could not disagree more. You do not preserve your right to free speech by defending the popular opinions. The way you loose your rights is when someone that hold unpopular opinions gets their rights limited. Are you so sure that all the opinions you hold and will hold can be expected to be rightthink for as long as you live?

If you study history the decline of many great countries have started with a censorship of unpopular opinions and shaming as well as ostracizing of anyone that think wrong:

  - Struggle session in Communist China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session

The end destination for this kind of thinking is Orwellian thoughtcrime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime).