@kenwhite.bsky.social gets at an important point here: the peddlers of this stuff aren't just wrong and muddled about what free speech means. They are actively hostile to it. The whole game is insisting some people's speech is bad for speech so they should be compelled to shut up.

Ken's also correct to note they damage free speech because people come to associate the term with censorious bad-faith bullshit. If people are constantly told "free speech" means powerful people playing crybully to silence their critics, that predictably erodes support for actual free speech.