As the saying goes, "I don't agree with a word you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Indeed, I find that these sorts of rule changes, "codes of conduct", "safe spaces", etc. deeply troubling --- a sign of a society that has abandoned freedom, personal responsibility, and independent thought. People are letting governments and companies dictate (and increasingly, automate away the decisions in) their lives for them.

Consider that the vast majority of communications between people now happens online, through channels controlled by companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter. The power to control what people can say, think or do falls in the hands of a tiny number of groups who can manipulate, censor, and divert the masses in the direction they want. That is really, really scary.