Socialists do not believe in freedoms for the people who oppose them. They are too happy to use whatever means necessary to shut them down and silence them.
“FRee Speech for ME, but not for THEE!”
The standard Leftist/hipster battle cry.
Silencing the opposition is the first step in the lunatic liberal playbook. When that does not work, the next step is total destruction of the opposition. However, that would be hard in this episode because the numbers in the opposition are so vast.