Over the summer, the Army and Navy’s Twitch channels were flooded with messages about America’s copious war crimes, questions that almost always resulted in bans. But since these bans arguably straddled the line of free speech violations, the Navy is asking its streamers to adopt a different tactic when viewers bring up the military’s past atrocities: act like complete fucking babies about it.

This stupid-ass new 'doctrine' that banning someone from your chat-room is curtailing their free speech is weak as fuck and needs to go away. And they have the gall to call measured and careful responses to outrage-trolling 'whiney'?

People get banned for using all-caps too much in twitch chats all the fucking time because they're disrupting the discussion by being distracting. Piping up in a military-sponsored chatroom with low-effort troll shit like "What is your favorite American war crime?" is very obviously meant to derail, embarrass, and disrupt the stream. But no, that's protected speech because it is anti-military, anti-patriotic, and anti-traditional. Rebel shit is protected, but the exact same level of simple miscreancy, no, that's not speech at all, you can ban those losers for joking around, but you can't ban our trolls because their targets are sanctioned.