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I think "suppress the freedom of speech" is a sort of clumsily applied term here. What you're trying to implement are effective house rules and I really don't see anything wrong with that. Without simple rules like that, people could just hop into your space and be abusive assholes then claim "FrEe SpeEcH". I'd say go right ahead and do what makes you feel comfortable.
Which should be besides the point.
You're focused on his intentions. We should be focused on his results. Or, even more so, on the aggregate results of many people doing the same thing he will do.
If you focus only on the intentions, bad things will happen and you will all be confused as to why the world became a worse place than it was previously. Intentions don't count for shit. And if you focus only on a single instance, you will be confused by all the emergent phenomena that just aren't recognizable until you've scaled this up x1000.
Haha. "Simple rules". I think they're part of the definition itself of emergent phenomena.