Pretty much everybody on the web is a big supporter of Free Speech. It makes sense, what with the overall ease of getting a couple of megs of hosting space to set up your own poorly designed little manifesto, and the overwhelming amount of public message boards and forums where anybody can post everything their heart desires.

For the most part, it's a good thing. It's nice to know you can write things that will be available to people all around the world. (Whether anybody else ever actually reads it is another question entirely.) What bothers me about internetters proudly proclaiming their rights to free speech is how many of them don't really understand what that means. A lot like how so many highschoolers claim to be anarchists because they think that just means blowing stuff up and doing whatever you want.

I realize I could blather on for some time about this, and I don't want to. So here's a big chunk of the point: The next time you're in a forum and the majority of the people there tell you to shut your idiotic noise-hole and go away, don't start whining about how you have a right to free speech and they can't stop you from saying what you want. True, you can say what you want. But so can they:
Freedom of Speech includes the right to tell you to shut the hell up!

If you can't support your opinions with anything besides the First Amendment, don't expect people to spend much time listening to you.