Every officially designated 'pro free speech warrior' I've seen in recent times has been strongly for authoritarianism if it suits their agenda. Just ask many of them for their opinion on say Palestine or Yemen and you'll lots of ugly things come out, none of which are consistent with the image of 'freedom' these types like to portray themselves as.
In fact, many of them seem to support anti-BDS laws and such.
I do not endorse censorship attempts, but also let's not kid ourselves about the nature of many of the people who market themselves free speech advocates, please.
Huge sweeping claim, with exactly nothing to back it up.
This is a fairly easily to verify claim. Now of course it's not going to be all of them, but a large chunk from what I've seen.
It's certainly more concrete than OP saying:
> The people getting arrested in the streets of Edinburgh were the same people who have been arguing to take away free speech and privacy rights from others.
Then providing nothing to back up the claim.
The sad part is that they, and all of their supporters, will probably go back to agitating against free speech after this whole thing blows over.