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.