Everyone is entitled to express their opinions. Doesn't mean you have to listen or take notice.

They always had the right, just not the platform.

Who are the people who write messages then delete them? If you have to remove it afterwards surely it shouldn't have been written in the first place...

And thus Eco shows his own arse - as though Nobel Prize winners had any sort of claim on anything beyond a very narrow specialisation.

Of course, given the utter drivel Eco has mostly written, I shouldn't be surprised by this.