Nevertheless, I’m going to stand by my overall argument. At the extremes of transparency, vital information, critical insights may go unexpressed, may in practice be repressed, for fear of unintended or potentially misconstrued associations that in the end could fracture one’s public integrity or in the case of unpopular political stances, expose one to life-threatening situations. In my geekiness, I got to say, these are nontrivial risks/costs that must be considered. Ideas–and people–deserve certain protections–even if they are idiots; perhaps especially if they are idiots. The political realm has been far from forgiving these days, even decades after something stupid has been long paid for.