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> Either you accept all of it or you go down the path to not having it.

That is the deal, yeah. There is no way to prohibit any opinion without creating a means of prohibiting opinions. Once you accept that, there's institutional buy-in. From there, it is a matter of degree, and the degree will be inherently fuzzy and subjective.

> Free speech is there for the stuff that people would suppress, even if I think a lot of it is insane and stupid.

Absolutely.

Most sea turtles are eaten on the way to the ocean after they hatch. The overwhelming majority of them, in fact. We still have sea turtles because some of them manage to make it. Someone wanders over to the mother as she's dumping a clutch of eggs in the sand and tells her "Hey...most of these are going to fail. You should only lay the eggs that will survive and thus matter. Just don't lay the bad ones." It's just not an option.