No, no, I regret that they won't speak up so we can't identify them, I don't regret the treatment they are given once they are identified. This is especially annoying when they start to act out on the opposites of these ideas as policies without announcing themselves, and in fact vehemently denying any type of association with the typical opponents of those ideas. It makes working to stop them harder.
You seem to have a fundamental confusion between "person is going to be punished for expressing beliefs outisde the Overton Window", and "person is going to suffer negative consequences once it is publically known that they have beliefs outside the Overton Window". The first would be institutionally enforced censorship, and wrong. The second would be simple social dynamics at work, and inevitable. If you can't tell the difference, I suggest you live in a country like the one where I was born, where the very circulation of certain ideas can be paid with your own life.
Tapping out.
I have found this most wonderful (if fairly lengthy) article, and thought you would enjoy having it brought to your attention.
It is so good, I think we should include it among the references in the "Politics is the Mind Killer" wiki page. But, before that, I submit it to you, and ask you: is there anything in this article that would warrant its exclusion from this site? I mean, besides the fact that it is about politics, and written by a notorious Social-democrat (And is that in itself grounds for exclusion?).