In reply to Peter Shaw.

You misunderstand protected speech under the US constitution. The 1st Amendment reads “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” Congress. WordPress is not Congress, WordPress is not the US government. WordPress is not in violation of freedom of speech by banning a plugin. In fact, the Supreme Court has held that boycotts are constitutionally protected speech. Free speech does indeed say that people are going to say things that offend us, and it ALSO says that we are free to respond to their odiousness by exercising free speech in the form of calling them out, asking them to leave our house, boycotting them or their products… Courts have held that all of those responses are also free speech.