Congratulations, you've somehow failed to grasp the prospect of the internet allowing for both an end to sexism and the ability to support anonymity! Give yourself a hand!

Lets start with your first statement, here. "True free speech"? Which is this, a 'no true Scotsman' or a 'splitting hairs' fallacy? Maybe 'moving the goalposts'? Point is, hate speech, short of inciting actual violence, is still protected. Mind you, indecency laws and influencing minors not your own are usually at play, but for a broad stroke, hate speech is free speech, even if you don't like it. Every opinion posted was just that, an opinion. To conflate opinions on another board with actual threats to a person is to claim that they're all one group of people. They're not. Both youtube and 4chan have thousands upon thousands of unique visitors daily. And as an aside, that first 4chan screenshot? Clearly not the default layout of the site, someone goes there with some frequency to install modifications of that sort.

In real life, I'd be apt to call you such names, because taking up a cause without fully comprehending the repercussions and ramifications of a narrow-minded and non-pragmatic approach can cause far more harm to one's cause than all the hate speech against it. This all, given my sensitivities to actual women, the disabled, minorities, religions, etc. which leads to my third point.

Making threats in real life can also be cast from the shadows, cloaked in anonymity. Just because the internet gives a convenient way to do something doesn't mean it wasn't done before computer networking existed. More so, just as I have stated in the previous paragraph, I claimed that you're not a woman. By calling you out, you'd take away my privacy to keep my name hidden, but in doing so, you'd expose yourself to everyone else that didn't do as I did, who are still anonymous. It would be "taking one for the team" so they say, but when you're bombarded by actual hate as opposed to convenient hate, availing yourself against a mob hurts more than uncovering the one person who called you out.

As for this "conspiracy against women", the sexism and hate is indicative of the culture and environment in which such people were brought up. Defeating this problem can't be done by quelling the already set-in-way folk; that's to protect the society from their actions, of which most of the internet won't do unless it can be done from in front of their computers. The way to best solve it is to transform the formative to see that this issue is something that can be changed, and to work toward changing it from the ground up.

Personally, I was considering donating to this kickstarter, but then I read the rest of the article, and the affront to citizens' privacy at large and thought against it. Rest assured, it's not because I'm insensitive to the plight of sexism, it's because someone has a stupid opinion and I'm not one to support stupid opinions, in whole or in part.

So far as I can tell, you are completely wrong. It appears to me that you have no experience with the communities we're talking about, such as 4chan (I'd like to know if this is entirely 4chan).

This is something you will have to learn about internet speech in general, but especially about 4chan's /b/ board. They are not saying what they say because they mean it or believe it. They are saying it because their culture is defined by being immune to anything and everything someone might say about you. Realizing that point should help you understand that your thought process about their motivations is completely wrong.

I can't claim to speak for these communities, no one can, but I can give you my idea of how it works. I sincerely doubt that any large numbers of actual anti-women believers are behind these posts. (though they could hide in them easily for sure) Rather, behind them you will find a philosophy that says people need to be thick skinned enough not to react to anything thrown at them, because in an anonymous world whatever can be said, will be said. These people are not enacting an organized spree of insults because they believe in what is being said, but because they believe people who react to it are weak and need to be made to face the reality of anonymous discourse.

So far as I can tell, 4chan /b/ is about embodying the essence of unrestricted anonymous expression, including and most especially the parts that people are uncomfortable with. A classic /b/ exercise is to find something that makes others uncomfortable and post it as broadly as possible. There is something of a philosophy that doing this allows you to face the worst of reality and not flinch, which you should not in their view because it is reality.

I believe (and have seen) that /b/ would make equally hateful campaigns against men, boys, and in fact anyone who puts their feelings out online. Their view is that if you make yourself vulnerable online, someone is going to victimize you, because it can be done anonymously. That's actually true, but less frequent than they believe.

Believing that the posters actually agree with what they write is a mistake. Rather understand that they are representing their philosophy that people need to be able to put up with anything, because what can be said, will be said.

I agree, and feminists are upset that they are all ugly dykes. Or not.