I believe the hippies who caught beating for protesting for free speech in the 60's, which have been memorialized with things like the "Free Speech Cafe" at UC

I believe the hippies who caught beating for protesting for free speech in the 60's, which have been memorialized with things like the "Free Speech Cafe" at UC Berkeley, are rolling in their graves. Free speech was a formerly progressive value and authoritarian attitudes formerly more popular on the right; politically here in the US. So there is nothing categorically inherent to Free speech or authoritarianism.