most of humanity's longest existing civilizations don't care about free speech, or liberalism altogether for that matter which is a fairly novel experiment in a

most of humanity's longest existing civilizations don't care about free speech, or liberalism altogether for that matter which is a fairly novel experiment in and of itself. You used like half a dozen adjectives in a two word sentence to express your discontent with censorship without advancing any point. Any real discussion would need to leave the ideology behind and ask some actual questions. Why is censorship bad? (rather than making the trivially wrong assumption that everyone who disagrees with you is a censor). Why should free speech be absolute, rather than differential, how does that relate to the abundance of information and modern technologies abuse of it etc. Dogmatic belief in free speech just reveals that no thinking is going on. It's a sacred cow, just like democracy or the meaningless phrase 'freedom', any criticism of which gets the same response you get from devout Muslims if you were to criticize the Quran. 'Free speech' itself is ironically enough a loaded phrase that tries to suffocate any view that dares to be anything less than 'free' right from the outset. Rhetorically everyone who disagrees is already "unfree" by definition, and what kind of barbarian wants that?