Whether it's good or bad for society is a complex topic, but spending your time riling up a digital mob every time someone says something controversial can't be a personally healthy way to live.

It’s an old saying that a lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on. Now it’s more like, 10 times around the world, and nobody even gives a damn what the truth ever was.

Or to put it another way, wrong-think statements can be weaponized against the speaker more effectively than ever.

Stallman had said more than enough to merit his termination IMO, but he still deserved due process before such judgment was passed.