Modern “progressive”: I believe in free speech, too. But only if you agree with everything I say. Otherwise, you will be silenced. One way or the other you will be silenced.
Exhibit #1:
With all the qualifications the New Time Liberal has but not saying them out loud because it would not go over very well.
It was always there silently. They just feel they have enough power to say it to your face now.
Sort of like with guns. The New Deal Democrats wanted nothing more then to disarm the people but even with the power of the Great Liberal god FDR they could not quite get there. So they settled for taking away guns that most people did not have. Now they feel quite comfortable telling you that the Second Amendment was only about "LAWFUL" weapons carried by "LAWFUL" people who have been carefully chosen.
BS of course but if they can get the search algorithms to agree they probably will be able to use their "AI" (actually a large language model. Liberals lie about everything) to convince people of that.