What's most surprising to me is how readily people engage is such obvious hypocrisy. The same people who decry Russia's ban on "gay propaganda" are pleased to ban "homophobia;" the same people who lament the McCarthy era of bans on communism are happy to ban fascism. The same people who mocked the moral panic about violent video games 10 years ago are quick to join the new moral panic about sexism therein.
I suppose the author is right: people love free speech . . . as long as it agrees with them.