Honestly most people have no idea what actually constitutes freedom of speech. Having social reprocussions for that speech has always been a thing. Being shunned for being terrible or having people use their property rights to remove you from their platforms is still freedom of speech in action. Freedom of Speech primarily exists to protect thw press and just means you can’t be jailed for what you say or have works of artistic or authorial merit censored by government.
Meanwhile we have people fighting to ban books from federal and state institutions. Teachers being fired for daring to use student nicknames and identifiers…
People crow “freedom of speech!” but too often they are spoiled, self important narcissistic children who just want to use some kind of schoolyard cootie shot nonsense to avoid anyone calling them on their shit. They don’t give a damn otherwise as long as they get to be comfortable and unchallenged and they are too often more than happy to attack the freedom of speech itself because they can’t handle seeing anyone else given access to it.
People love to forget that free speech was vital for their progressive paradise, it’s a cicle
If you implement measures for repressing speech today, those same measures will repress you or what you believe in today
It just takes too long for any one person to notice or care
Honestly most people have no idea what actually constitutes freedom of speech. Having social reprocussions for that speech has always been a thing. Being shunned for being terrible or having people use their property rights to remove you from their platforms is still freedom of speech in action. Freedom of Speech primarily exists to protect thw press and just means you can’t be jailed for what you say or have works of artistic or authorial merit censored by government.
Meanwhile we have people fighting to ban books from federal and state institutions. Teachers being fired for daring to use student nicknames and identifiers…
People crow “freedom of speech!” but too often they are spoiled, self important narcissistic children who just want to use some kind of schoolyard cootie shot nonsense to avoid anyone calling them on their shit. They don’t give a damn otherwise as long as they get to be comfortable and unchallenged and they are too often more than happy to attack the freedom of speech itself because they can’t handle seeing anyone else given access to it.
Freedom of Press is a whole separate thing. Freedom of Speech is about public discourse in general, not just speech by members of the press.
Apart from that, however, you’re on the right track.