I see "free speech" with scare quotes around it from left leaning people fairly often. Much of the left is pretty happy with the idea of blacklisting and no pla

I see "free speech" with scare quotes around it from left leaning people fairly often. Much of the left is pretty happy with the idea of blacklisting and no platforming people now. (They weren't so happy about it in the McCarthy days.) I think quite a lot of leftists/progressives would be happy to see hate speech laws passed in the U.S. They don't yell for those laws directly because they know they wouldn't get any traction (yet). Instead they chip away at the edges where they can get more support. I've seen free speech leftists complain about the anti free speech left too. Support for free speech used to be almost the defining value of liberals/progressives. Not any more.