Interestingly enough, the Board’s members were not always so sanguine about speech having consequences.
In this thread in 2007, here’s what I said about the US woman’s bridge team after they held up a sign saying, “We did not vote for Bush,” and got suspended by their organization:
Many other posters disagreed with me at the time. It sure is nice to see my views on the general issue coming into acceptance.
And no – no. I won’t hear any objections about the unanimous opinions now being the result of disliking Dr. laura and her message, and the mixed opinion in 2007 arising from the fact that the message then was anti-Bush, and therefore laudable. Dopers take positions based on facts; they just don’t do things like that.