> We as a society generally have conventions around what speech is appropriate
80 years back you would not be able to express freely your defence of homosexuality. Before that you would not be able to "talk back" to the pope. Said conventions are rarely sane or fair.
> And we as a society generally "punish" people who violate these conventions by being reluctant to interact with those people.
Or mob on them by calling them to be banned from a conference or to get fired.
> I don't oppose strict legal consequences for murder
There are victims in murder. There are no victims when you express your opinion about something. In my experience most people who get censored are not bigots, in fact they even follow the wider social conventions, the issue is that they do not follow the specific social conventions that the extremist groups that are anti-free speech want to enforce.
80 years back you would not be able to express freely your defence of homosexuality. Before that you would not be able to "talk back" to the pope. Said conventions are rarely sane or fair.
> And we as a society generally "punish" people who violate these conventions by being reluctant to interact with those people.
Or mob on them by calling them to be banned from a conference or to get fired.
> I don't oppose strict legal consequences for murder
There are victims in murder. There are no victims when you express your opinion about something. In my experience most people who get censored are not bigots, in fact they even follow the wider social conventions, the issue is that they do not follow the specific social conventions that the extremist groups that are anti-free speech want to enforce.