“Freedom of speech” is intended to protect your speech from the government. It’s not meant to imply that the government protects your speech from others. It’s their “speech” if they say ‘your opinion sucks, go away’

Back to the old days of forum discourse? If you have nothing of value to add it’s best to stay silent.

I can even hear the music playing in my head!

There are some surprisingly asinine people out there who got so corrupted by their power over people that they got turned into almost caricature-like nightmare bosses.