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Is it really free speech if you are whispering it behind closed doors? What happens when someone else views the same thread and wants to see an opposing viewpoint to mine? What if they are never exposed to the opposing viewpoint in their lives, ever? They can't read our private messages, and this builds a closed public discussion on a narrow set of viewpoints. That policy creates the public image of a discussion that is controlled to be exactly one viewpoint, and all the real discourse is in private. That is practically the definition of a sounding chamber. Lock your subversive thoughts up in private.