I’m glad to hear that Antenna is blocking¹ a Zionist troll, and I’m disappointed — but not shocked — that this person has attacked Antenna in response to this.
Communities always have the right to shun people; sometimes they have a responsibility to do so. There will always, eventually, come a point where you need to pick a side. For example, you can’t make a space where trans people feel safe and welcome and also let transphobic gender essentialists feel the same. Anybody who’s been in a community larger than a couple dozen people (online or off) has learned this lesson; I’d guess that most of the people on the small ’net have personally seen this play out many times. I’m happy to know that ew0k decided that genocide apologists aren’t welcome on the service that he runs.
When fascists complain about their “free speech” rights, they’re always complaining that some individuals or small organizations have told them to kick rocks². The State certainly has no interest in censoring conservative viewpoints because nobody on “the right” is questioning its legitimacy. Meanwhile, even here where I enjoy a bit of anonymity, I need to be circumspect about some of my viewpoints (which wouldn’t imperil the lives of anyone, unlike those of the people calling for more children to be bombed in Gaza) lest the police put me on a list or some fascists doxx me to threaten my family.
Complaining about a double standard has never done anything to eliminate it. The only thing that works is taking one side’s power away until they can’t get away with it anymore. In the meantime, something that you can do for the health of any community in which you’re a part, and to help shift the balance of power a tiny bit, is to waste no time in telling assholes to go pound sand.
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¹ I’m not interested in arguments about what is and isn’t “censorship”; anarchists who get drawn into such debates will find themselves arguing about what powers the state should and shouldn’t have — an obnoxious distraction for anyone seeking to abolish the state.
² Only in these instances do they seem to conveniently forget their absolute commitment to the right of property owners to control their own property.