Caitlin Johnstone has this to say about freedom of speech:

[https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-not-free-to-oppose-a-genocide]

You don’t measure a society’s freedom by how much its citizenry are allowed to agree with their government, you measure it by how much they’re allowed to disagree.

Nobody likes to be disagreeable but sometimes you have no choice.