Equally difficult to see how you can have unlimited consequence-free speech and protection from the sort of things people broadly agree protection is good for,

Equally difficult to see how you can have unlimited consequence-free speech and protection from the sort of things people broadly agree protection is good for, so something has to give. That balance probably means having consequences at the publisher level rather than at the individual one. Meatspace publishers have historically shown willing to shoulder these burdens: journalism organisations have sometimes gone to extreme lengths to protect sources and staff working in oppressive regimes.