Why are they afraid of free speech? They’re afraid that only they’re capable of figuring out what people should hear? Are they afraid of truth?
No, they want the message to be destroyed. Anything that might not agree with them is bad and therefore mustnot be allowed.
to deliver a contrary message or to hear a contrary message is heretical and must be disallowed.
They are socialists, and socialism is the political creed of control freaks.