It’s an interesting blog write up. I do agree that we should not be deplatforming people.

But they raise a very interesting argumentative structure, they start off with back in my day we used to call each other terrible names, and then at the closing of their argument, they cite somebody calling them a terrible name as an issue of today…

Their argument would have been stronger if they just focused on not wanting the free and open source community to de-platform people for political views outside of the structure of that community