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There's no evidence that this is motivated by his own "outing" as gay. It's not as if he was concealing it, and he's smart enough to have known that it would become public knowledge as his profile grew.

As he says in this interview, he's big and powerful enough to defend himself.

What he's fighting is the practice of destroying the reputations or lives of people who don't have the power to defend themselves, and claiming "free speech" as a justification for operating without any sense of morality and compassion.



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