The myth of the free speech crisis: How overblown fears of censorship have normalised hate speech and silenced minorities

This article perfectly captures my thoughts with the way people in the modern tech scene argue about free speech.

It's never truly about ensuring corporations control less of our lives, but about the ability to silence minority voices. When they say they want 'freedom of speech' what they want is freedom from the consequences of said speech. They want to yell at minorities, scream obscenities and vulgarities all the while claiming if you take offense to them being an ass you're the one somehow wrong. Then you have a bunch of either willfully ignorant or downright gullible people following along because they believe in the platonic ideal of free speech which in reality is free speech for me and not for thee.

It's frankly infuriating because when you have actual issues of freedom of speech cropping up (like the government silencing dissent or engaging in viewpoint discrimination against LGBT individuals) all of those freedom of speech advocates suddenly go silent.