You're stripping free speech away if you take a moving goalpost like being mean and use it as justification.

There is no law against being a dick. There is in fact the highest law in favor of being a dick (if you want to).

We choose to ignore mean people, but their rights do not disappear because we disagree with them. You don't have the right to not be talked shit about, you don't have the right to cleanse the voices of people you don't like. Because removing those are removing the freedoms of someone else.

You are simply free to not engage someone who isn't worth engaging with. It is that simple, Mulholland.

You also do not have the right to forcibly protect anyone else that aren't having their rights infringed.