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I'd say when open source seems organized against you, you might be the problem.
Reality has a non-frothing-at-the-mouth-oblivious-cult-member bias to it
But that really is a bias too. Everything has a bias relative to most existing points of view. That's why the "free speech" thing was invented, because when your world is larger than one isolated village or even one isolated, even if moving, royal court, then you can't make everyone think the same subjectively correct way. Free speech was a way for nations to survive modernization. There are more dimensions to the world than any single person understands enough to not be what you said. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is an idiot in something and would want to shut everyone up in that dimension.
Not only it's a right first and foremost of those you disagree with, though, but it also can't ever be based on good will. It can only be based on inability to break by force. Like any other institution.
I think many bad things in our reality are due to reliance on good will having been covertly put into many key places of the mechanisms.