How about a bad patent protection instead?

I hate people who don't share my point of view too. :)

Perhaps you only define freedom of speech as a legal term (and only in the US legal system and only as it appears in the constitution) but you cannot deny that the concept is much bigger than that. Society can restrict freedom of speech in unlegislated ways.

Is that a rhetorical question? Can you clarify your position?

I guess it's good to think about it before you say it, whatever it is.

Are you implying that not all speech should be protected?
If that's case, I'd say that the best possible scenario exists somewhere in the middle: No shouting fire frivolously and no banning people from a country because of a drunken letter.

Both situations have a worker (or citizen) negatively affected by a large and powerful entity, which the worker (citizen) is a part of, because of what the worker (citizen) has said.

Regarding "private" relations: You don't think it would be a freedom of speech issue if, for example, you bashed Scientology out in public and as a consequence the Church of Scientology sent people to harass you and tried to make you look like a terrorist in the eyes of FBI (which has happened)?

With that logic, North Korea has freedom of speech.

"You can say/write whatever you want...just be ready to accept the consequences."

The consequence just happens to be capital punishment or forced labor for years.

What would happen if we ignored GPL violations?

I posit that GPL would no longer remain relevant at all and the end result would be far more welcome to "the FUDists" than what we have now.

There isn't much cognitive dissonance. GPL just uses the strong copyright to keep itself and derivatives one sort of free.
A much stranger position to me is hating copyright and GPL, because you at the same time hate the former which takes away freedom (to use and copy) and the latter which gives freedom (to use and copy).

"We can all be thankful that Tinkode's activities appear to be have been more mischievous than dangerous. If someone with more malice in mind had hacked the site they could have used it to post malicious links on the Navy's JackSpeak blog, or embedded a Trojan horse into the site's main page."

Giving anyone free reign to embed said trojans into the site is only marginally better. Assuming of course that it could be done with the exposed admin logins. Now they're forced to go through pretty much everything to make sure no such traps were placed or if information was stolen.
The mischevious option would have been to remain only parts of the passwords, or otherwise proving it and not leaking anything sensitive.
Not to worry however, I'm sure he'll get 60 years in jail without parole for embarrassing the wrong people.

Depends on the implementation of the website. It could be that clicking "log out" only removes the cookie from your browser -> You are logged out.

Making sure that someone else doesn't also have the cookie might be viewed as redundant, if this kind of security is not kept in mind while designing/coding the site. Perhaps it could even be removed as an optimization for a very popular service like Facebook.

You forget the '4chan' part of the problem. They will use this to ruin your (however unimportant you think it is) life and just for giggles.

The new Nokia CEO is Stephen Elop, the former head of Microsoft Corp.’s business unit.
Source.

Also there have been talk of and/or more integration of their services:
https://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2007/aug07/08-22NokiaMSLiveServicesPR.mspx
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/aug09/08-12pixipr.mspx
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/15/will-microsoft-and-nokia-team-up-to-take-on-apple-google/

Here you go, life expectancies for England:

England - Male life expectancy 78 years, female 82.1 years.

Source.