The necessity of freedom of speech, the desire to protect all forms of speech, and to rebuke those who try to deplatform other people...?

Liberals do protect the Freedom of Speech as well as the freedom to express yourself as an artist or an author. However, there are words that are not protected by the First Amendment and the law defines them as "fighting words".

Fighting words legal definition is " those words that their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace or promoted violent acts that lead to the risk of life or limb". In tort law, one who uses fighting words toward another creating anxiety or apprehension on that person can be charged with assault.

Yes everyone has a right to free speech. And free speech gives the right to protest what is being said. So it goes both ways.

You have either misread or misinterpreted the full meaning of our nation's First Amendment which grants freedom of speech and freedom of the press, among other provisions.

Hate speech that is used to incite violence is not protected, and neither is someone yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire.

The fallacy of "freedom from any or all restrictions" is not part of our Constitution, although the corporate-colluding GOP as tracked in "DARK MONEY: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" (2017) by investigative journalist Jane Mayer might disagree since the goal of these hidden-agenda theocratic COUP-seeking libertarian-minded billionaires seek to have an OLIGARCHY where billionaire right-wing corporate bosses have ABSOLUTE POWER, after convincing the duplicitous criminally partisan fiscally insane nation-destroying powers-abusing Congressional Republicans to be in FULL DERELICTION OF DUTY (refusing to do oversight or consumer protections that the Constitution assigns to them as the duties of Congress).

Rational moderation is what Democrats and moderates-in-hiding Republicans accept for the United States, which means that we each have rights so long as those rights do not infringe upon the rights of others.

No, liberalism has always been about allowing free speech. It never meant social acceptance of all speech. Our founding fathers werent that nice to royalists if you want an example.

Don’t worry about it. It’s not like republicans represent those Americans anyway.

I deny you a platform. There! Wah hah!