It would be nice if the "free speech" complainers bothered to defend something other than racism some time. Nobody on the right was talking about that when FOSTA/SESTA swept across the US internet.

Seemingly every time someone pops up with the free speech defence, it's in favour of slurs of some kind. It's really eroded support for the abstract concept.

The ACLU has long complained that they end up defending the worst people. That doesn't mean freedom isn't worth defending.

We already hate it enough to pair it with capitalism, where people are forced to work all hours of the day instead of getting to sit down, think, and discuss. Charging for education too, is hatred of free speech, since you gate the tools of expression behind wealth

Ditto with not providing safe spaces for people to discuss without their oppressors present.

If we can make some tradeoffs for freedom speech, we can make others

I for one don't necessarily care about free speech itself, but the benefits it brings for ensuring that new ideas are proliferated and people at the bottom of society aren't forgotten about. Free speech is an implementation detail, rather than a requirement