[markovbot]

the author of this blog post appears to be disagreeing with some people's attitude and explaining another view of the situation. They are not imposing on anyone's freedom of speech or (as far as I can tell) intending to. They are also just offering words, perhaps in the hopes of changing some people's minds.

I wonder, what makes this "useless" in your mind?

> “You didn’t pay for it so shut up you entitled free user” is one of those ideas that just don’t work in practice.

I agree with this, but not for any of the extremely dumb "reasons" you've provided.

[powersnail]

I’m not saying that the author is imposing on people’s rights.

I’m just saying that free users and frankly non-users have such a right, and are acting in accordance with what they are fully entitled to do.

The act of complaining has nothing to do with payment. It’s you see something you disagree with, you can complain about it. Whether the target has a preexisting contract with you is irrelevant.