This freedom of speech argument always confuses me. I do believe in freedom of speech (yes, I get the irony given I have to delete posts that break rules, which kinda goes against the whole freedom of speech thing...but still) but other people seem to think it means something different to what I believe it to mean.
I do not believe opinions should be hidden. However I also believe people can be called out on opinions.
For example. I would rather a racist person said something racist, and was pulled up on said racism by someone else. I see BOTH of these instances as freedom of speech.
Some seem to think allowing a racism to go unchallenged is freedom of speech. It isn't, it goes both ways.
Obviously if we are talking forum-wise..said racist post would be removed as racism is against the rules. In life though, I would much rather know that someone I was talking to was a raging bigot than have them censor themselves.
But yeah, freedom of speech for everyone is my preferred method. Sadly for most who cry for freedom of speech, they seem to not realise that someone else calling them racist (in their opinion) is also just the other person exercising their use of said freedom
Edit. I am not accusing anyone of racism here, just giving an example of what free speech means to me, and racism was the first example I thought of.