Regarding free speech ...

Agreed. Same thing happened at many other sites, back when there were some vestiges about free speech. When they couldn't win the argument, they banned anyone who spoke the truth.

It's funny seeing this debate spill over into other parts of the internet these days. There is a growing recognition that censorship of the truth creates big problems, and yet no one discusses the fact that these current trends began with censorship of the truth about pedophilia.