You're making a completely false dichotomy. The complaint is not that people are just protesting the movie. It's that they're applying a lot of pressure on many

You're making a completely false dichotomy. The complaint is not that people are just protesting the movie. It's that they're applying a lot of pressure on many parties to cancel the movie. E.g. we're not talking about holding signs at the conference. We're talking about calling translators who worked on the movie, and telling them "denounce this film or we will make sure you never get another arab translation job again". Not all speech is equivalent. Speech which is arranging a hit job is not protected free speech. Speech which is fraud is not free speech.