Freedom of speech requires rational adults who are not emotionally disabled or compromised. If you are not rational or you just memorize group ideas, your ideas may be vulnerable to reason, so censorship may be needed to keep them alive. Bad ideas, with restricted free speech and censorship can linger much longer than they would, if free speech was the way of the world. The side that censors tends to have the worse ideas that are vulnerable to reason.
In the old Soviet Union, for example, the Government would say how everything was good for its people via the state run media. One was not allowed to observed and speak out to reality. Censorship allowed the fantasy world to appear to be real, since nobody seemed to be complaining. Free speech is needed so facts can come out and solutions can be found.
If you are emotionally fragile or compromised then you may want to censor magic words and ideas, so you don't fall apart; loss of soul. I do not think it is a good idea for the patients to be running the asylum. We should be considerate of the emotional ill, but if you slip in the heat of free speech, the patients need to also be considerate, since this act of self control will help them heal.
In the US, social and legacy media tends to target only one side of the political isle for censorship, using a one sided and deceptive criteria called hate speech. Hate speech panders to emotions and not reason and is very subjective. It tends to place its thumb on the scale of censorship.
If you are white, male and Conservative you are expected to take all forms of free speech, since you are assumed to be the least emotionally crippled. Your feeling of white privilege is like a shield that makes you more mature or deserving of the dual standard. The word hate can used, but this is not hate speech; irrational form of censorship. The exception are Leftist white males who can say anything.
The same parallel things said about a wide range of Leftist groups are taboo. The left, when looking at itself, assumes we are dealing with tender brains and compromised hearts, caused by the indoctrination of Left, which is too easy to compromise by free speech. These sheep are vulnerable to shearing by anyone.
If I was to point out that a major cause of death among young black men were other young black men, this fact will be called hate speech. The idea is to end the discussion with an emotional taboo, before any facts are laid out, so we can help solve the problem. This is the worse form of censorship since it uses emotions to compromise common sense so the sickness can remain.
Free speech is not just about talking, but it is also about not having to recite any party line. The pronoun nonsense to help sell the transgender fad, cannot be forced on anyone, especially in state run public schools, due to free speech. However, this word game can still be done on a volunteer basis. Freedom of speech allows for both choices.
