Discord Bans Alt-Right Chat Channels Following Charlottesville Protests

Look, I know we're a gaming website, so games are always the news of the day, but we don't exist in a vacuum and we've never shied away from controversial or political issues in the past, so if this is one of those things that's gonna trigger you... well, why bother clicking the link to begin with?
 
But for the rest of you, assuming you ALSO don't live in a vacuum (and you're based in the United States), you've probably heard about last weekend's march in Charlottesville, where a group of Neo-Nazi jerk-wads held a protest supporting their... right to exist? Right to be racist? I don't know, they were protesting something. And that alone might have been a sad, if not especially noteworthy event, except when people started counter-protesting, one of the crazy members of the alt-right decided it was okay to try to plow through the counter-protest in his truck, injuring several people and killing one. Needless to say, things have been charged on both sides of the isle, but you'd be hard-pressed to find any reasonable person who wouldn't point the blame solely at the feet of the Nazi-flag-flying monsters who actually started attacking people.
 
Regardless, while our commander-in-chief has tactfully avoided commenting on the situation (I'm going to try to avoid going too off topic in regards to that), others have not been so tasteful. Namely, gaming chat service Discord, which happily announced late yesterday that they were going to do what little they could in the face of this evil and a shut down the alt-right chat rooms used at large within the service.

The full statement, over Twitter, reads as follows:
 

Discords mission is to bring people together around gaming. We're about positively and inclusivity. Not hate. Not violence.
Today, we've shut down the altright.com server and a number of accounts associated with the events in Charlottesville. WE will continue to take action against white supremacy, nazi ideology, and all forms of hate.

 
The news was met with a heaping of praise and, of course, vitriol from the alt-right, who called them a series of names I can't repeat on our family-friendly website. Needless to say, this is only a minor inconvenience for the movement, who will find a new home with a less concerned company, but the gesture meant a lot to people.

Call it oppression of free speech if you want, but I disagree. If your only platform is "screw everyone else", you certainly have the right to say it... but the stages you try to spew that speech have the same right to keep you from standing on them, just the way Discord did.
 
And that's the news, ladies and gents.