It doesn't mean protection against governments so a citizen can say what they like about them.
Quite the opposite in fact.
Cancel Liz Cheney for telling the truth, cancel Mickey Mouse for criticizing the psycho governor’s policies, ban math books for referring to Jamal, BUT!
… let us tell election lies, spread conspiracy theories, sow dissent and violence…. THAT is the New Free Speech.
We are about to see some 17th Century terror tactics employed by the increasingly outnumbered radical right, if they get back any control of the federal government. Forget democracy, period.
MOST of the country will be living in third world conditions within a decade if it all goes south in 2024.