I'm glad you found a voice. A true society which is free must, by its very definition, have freedom of expression. And censorship is incompatible with such principles.

Indeed. And some people (I have noticed it more from the opponents of Gamer Gate movement and from our resident reddit SJWs) are always very quick to dismiss any social censorship efforts (not those caused by the government, but by private citizen organizations, media, very strict moderators..) as "nothing to do with free speech", as if only the government could be capable of censorship. They are reducing the wider, general principle of free speech to just the legal principle, as if nothing beyond that exists. There is also the one xkcd comic that is guilty of this misinterpretation. Yet when we look up the definition of censorship, we see this:

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.[1]

Governments, private organizations and individuals may engage in censorship. When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speech, it is called self-censorship.

Freedom of speech is not just a legal principle. Its a general principle (on which the narrower legal one is based on) - that you will use the power you hold to silence others as little as possible, in private or government setting, even if they say opinions you disagree with. If we destroy this culture of free speech (in gaming, on reddit, internet, real life..) and replace it with pervasive culture of censorship and politically correct silencing of non-conforming ideas, its almost just as bad as government censorship. Perhaps even more, since this insidious kind of censorship can be dismissed with the fallacious argument mentioned above, and many people who dont realize that freedom of speech is not just strictly legal principle bounding the government will be persuaded and will deny that any problem exists.