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by betterunix 4452 days ago
"If Eich no longer believes what he believed,"

So the issue is not speech but rather thought. George Orwell had a term for punishing people for their thoughts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

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And he acted on his thought about marriage equality, so it was not a piece of thoughtcrime
No, the action of donating money to helping the suppression.