> Authority. The same institutions that get to decide anything else. What I'm arguing is that, if you are okay with say, the police limiting freedom of associat

> Authority. The same institutions that get to decide anything else. What I'm arguing is that, if you are okay with say, the police limiting freedom of association in the public space to ensure the safety of a community, you ought to be okay with limits on freedom of speech for that same reason. That doesn’t follow unless you believe in authoritarian dictatorship. If you don’t, then the authority to temporarily limit freedom of association must be accountable to the people. In order to hold authority to account, it must be possible to speak in ways that authority would wish to silence. This is why freedom of speech is important.