That’s fair, and yeah very good points. Certainly, even in my lifetime, democracy has led to subjugation of minorities.

I guess that goes back to my initial premise that “free speech” and “free expression” are poor descriptors, though I’m not sure what better ones would be.

People end up colloquially conflating them with absolute freedom , when outside of libertarians, most societies have rules around it.

I generally feel like codes of conduct are better than using terms like “free”. They denote nuance while allowing flexibility of the guidelines.