Who said anything about Russians? Its Putin whos the problem. And no one cares about him participating in our "marketplace of ideas". Its his participation in our elections and his grooming of and leverage over our current president thats the problem. The sad thing is while hes an annoying problem for us, hes far worse to his fellow Russians whom he readily imprisons, tortures and kills for things that are universal rights such as disagreeing with him, being gay, Muslim or a minority. Many of the trolls he uses to flood our social media with have been coerced by him into doing so, often by threats to them or their families. Perhaps instead of reinforcing their oppression by welcoming them to our participate in our message boards you should instead be looking for and fighting for ways to welcome their defection from a violent totalitarian dictator or better yet trying to end that dictators evil reign. But youre right, those things you mention arent treason, theyre just stupid and mean.