Comment by nativeit

I've literally not seen anyone in the last two generations who espouse free speech principals who then followed them when they reached a position of power. Quite the opposite, actually, the creeping fascism currently spreading its roots in the United States features heavily decrying limits to its freedom of speech, and then instantly abusing ambiguity and leveraging the inherent unbalancing of truth with misinformation and propaganda.

Just to be clear, I agree with everything you said. I just think "freedom of speech" shares a lot of issues with things like "communism" when put into practice by eminently flawed humans.