I honestly always thought free speech was a dumb idea that in execution almost solely benefits people who wanna use hate speech and shit anyhow. When was the last time someone actually said something that needed to be said and didn’t get torn a new asshole for it?
At the very least, the American conception’s total trash and we’re still expected to act like it’s the best thing since sliced bread despite it mostly being used to stick up for people that’d get kicked off any self respecting IRC channel in minutes.