I keep hearing people say there is an attack on free speech, on platform after platform after platform. It's like a canary in a coal mine, It seems perfectly alive to me, I'll be concerned when I dont see that statement any more.

Personally, I find the government censoring the CDC, and not getting accurate information from government agencies a much larger imposition on free speech. The silencing or the Florida data scientist sharing public information that conflicted with official reports.

Why? Because the government is using legal threats to silence someone on every channel.

> Free speech used to be popular.

Still is with us rebels. How the hell free speech became counter culture I have no idea, but I’m 90% sure it has to do with almost all media in the USA being run by 6 corporations.

Real free speech is always counter cultural. You only need it when you're saying something counter to what the culture thinks.

But I'm talking about the speech itself, and you're talking about support for free speech. You'd expect support for free speech to not be counter-cultural. But when what's being expressed is counter-cultural, support for the speech may be somewhat weaker among the culture, at least among those who aren't sticklers for principle.