I think one problem we have here, and this is not aimed at any one person or group:

Person A says '4 = 2+2'

Person B says '4 = 2*2' or '5 = 6-1'

Person A says ' You are trying to bash/put down/stifle my choice etc.' 

If you look at what is being said objectively, that really doesn't happen that often. Expressing a different preference or view of the facts isn't , or shouldn't be ipso facto viewed as an attack or some kind of attempt at censorship. Too many of us (myself included) have become so reflexive that we assume the worst without making a serious enough effort to even listen to what the other person is saying. I've spent an hour on three paragraphs trying to second guess the many ways that someone might misinterpret what I was saying, sometimes to no avail. Too much reading between the lines to find what we expect or maybe want to be there when it isnt. These figures/programs/companies have become like proxies in some kind of bizarre, zero sum tribal warfare.You cvan ban politics and religion but we only find some other arena for combat.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken