I believe in freedom of speech. I also believe that what we have in the US now is not freedom of speech, but licence. For the first 150 years, “freedom of speech” did not cover obscenity, pornography, descriptions of child molestation nor its advocacy, plays about Jesus being a fag, the Vagina monologues, and the like. Nor did it cover naked dancing, women stomping on kittens on youtube, prostitues covering themselves with chocolate on stage, “Gay Pride” parades, and on and on ad nauseum.
It meant “Freedom to express your ideas”.
And that’s the way it should be, and the way the Founders meant it to be. What we have now is utter perversion of freedom of speech. I’m not even touching on ‘hate speech’ and what is forbidden, that’s another topic.
And yes, the people banning the books are leftists. They are the watered-down Indian equivalent of national socialists.