Free Speech Defenders Don’t Understand the Critique Against Them

"You say you want free speech, but it is free speech and expression for us to decide and exclude you from our society both economically and socially".

Probably interesting things could have been said and investigated but none of that is to be found. I also find this article confuses countries just to make a point about hypocrisy, for example Jordan Peterson can get away with suing for defamation in the commonwealth because no other country except the US has real freedom of speech/expression laws. In the commonwealth you can just claim you were defamed and the onus is on the defendent to prove they didn't defame you. There was already a famous case about this involving some holocaust denying author who sued a critic and the federal government (note: not US government, we're talking about foreign countries) came down on this critic with the full force of unlimited resources and power forcing them to defend their criticism.

If you write an article like this it would be nice to try and run test cases against your own hypothesis that it is freedom of expression for a vocal majority to exclude somebody economically and socially they disagree with, like what if the comments were socially acceptable when they were made, but no longer are, should you still be removed from society and is this still freedom of expression. Classic example that could have been used is politicians signing petitions in their naive young past that are now socially unacceptable, which are brought out in the current political climate and used as a weapon. Another hypothesis that could have been explored is what if the current social climate is overtly racist, like it's acceptable to hate a specific group, then is it still freedom of expression to cancel that hated group from society using Rwanda as an example and numerous other ethnic conflicts.

tl;dr it would be nice if somebody put some rigor into these kind of articles, like negating your hypothesis and seeing if your claim still holds ie: some signal in the noise. It would also be nice if these author's at least read Orwell's classic essay on how to do political writing: https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli... while you read this article, look for tired methaphor's like 'preach to the choir'.