[PaulCruz2016]

Maybe because this article calling him "anti-Obama" seems designed to rile people up, whom might not be so much if they knew about what the guy believed.

Yeah, yeah: "free speech", but don't pretend that an article about Bill Maher losing his YouTube channel would spark any sort of real outrage on this website.

[Swordmaker]

Actually, I would be incensed. Free speech is free speech. I might be pleased he was off the air, but if he is censored BECAUSE of his opinions Then, yes, I would be incensed. I prefer they be heard so that people KNOW what vile opinions they hold.

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak for me."
—Matin Niehmöller, German Lutheran Pastor who spent seven years in a Nazi Concentration Camp