as someone in the Uk the recent freedom of speech issues are concerning, some people got arrested for inciting violence and direct calls to violence which is banned in most countries anyway but some got arrested for talking about their beliefs about groups of people (I'm not defending what was said) but their right to say it is important, I don't care about freedom of speech I care about whats downstream from it which is freedom of thought, if we tomorrow we banned a word like "tree" or "walk" or anything really eventually people will think in different ways because how you talk influences how you think, the words you use and the type of thoughts you have, when you restrict someones freedom of speech (if it's enforced in mass) you are restricting their thoughts in a very real way