I’m afraid absolute freedom is slightly overrated. You have to draw the line somewhere. I’m okay with where it’s been drawn today. It’s a “you’ll know it when you see it” thing.

This isn’t authoritarianism, and we can still rightfully claim to be a tolerant society with sound rejection and banishment of hate speech. Hypothetical example, my religion does not believe in gay marriage, yet I don’t prohibit others from pursuing a happier life. But (the royal) you must absolutely draw the line at enabling hate.

I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that you do not recognize the quote.

There’s a south park episode about this :)

> A tolerant society that doesn't "tolerate intolerance" (your words) is an intolerant society.

Absolutely wrong [0].

> We are heading toward authoritarianism.

With the failure of this insurrection and the (unfortunately very weak) backlash against Trump, the primary leader of this failed coup, we've actually moved away from authoritarianism. If anything, we need stronger action by the government to prevent this from happening again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> We are heading toward authoritarianism.

We had a coup attempt on Wednesday! We're already there. This is the attempt to recover. Maybe it won't work. I'm not super hopeful. But in a country where the president can aim a riot at congress, his ability to tweet doesn't really seem like the freedom we should be most concerned about.

See "Paradox of tolerance"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance