I don't really get your point about free speech. That's a government protection. What I am talking about is the tendency of mobs to act as conduits of misinform

I don't really get your point about free speech. That's a government protection. What I am talking about is the tendency of mobs to act as conduits of misinformation and abuse while projecting some form of morality en masse. It teeters on being more harmful than the thing they're mobbing about, typically.