Consequence-free speech

No. Free speech is not some right wing reframing of whatever. It's the foundation of western civilization.

Free speech. Okay. What they mean by free speech isn't free speech. It's number one being platformed by privately owned media outlets. In other words, they don't think it means the right of people to say whatever they want.

They think it means the right of people or the entitlement of people to be given a microphone, be given a camera, and be given an audience to listen to whatever they wanna say. And number two, it means that they want freedom from the backlash of saying whatever they wanna say. They think that it's contradictory or it's counter to free speech for people to disagree with them and to voice their disagreement. And mostly, they wanna be listened to. They think that free speech means the entitlement to a microphone, to a camera, to a platform, to an audience that will agree with them or any way if they don't agree with them, they'll shut up.

In fact, the real issue, if you combine these things, all of these things together, what they actually are objecting to is not being able to successfully monetize their speech and make profit. So what they actually mean by the right to free speech is the right to profitable speech no matter what they wanna say.