Wiping out free speech? Who–me?
“Freedom” has never been popular among big-shot ruling classes. Sometimes it isn’t even popular among the poor plebs who are ruled.
Great efforts have been made to transform Germany into a free country. When that’s accomplished, the next project is to turn lead into gold.
In those few countries where freedom of speech is actually protected by law–our law, the Constitution, forbids the state to take away that freedom–the government has to find cats’-paws in Big Tech and the corporate world to do their dirty work for them. Somehow Herod never fails to find men to carry out his crimes.