Just because you have a right to say something doesn't mean you should say it. People voicing unsubstantiated concerns about things they know nothing about is how conspiracy theories spread, and they cause real harm. For one, some neutral person coming across the Trisquel forum only to find a bunch of nutters spreading conspiracy theories discredits our community and even the entire libre software movement. For another, conspiracy theories sometimes cause real harm to society; see the anti-vaccination movement, for example, which has enabled diseases that we could easily have eradicated years ago to resurge recently.

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