UP, I'm sorry. When I said to invest heavily in Reddit and that, I was at work and didn't have time to properly phrase a response. I'd like to do that now.
What we call free speech is indeed a construct of the government. As long as nobody was arrested for saying whatever it was, then free speech was not violated. So your issue, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with free speech as it currently stands. Your issue, again as far as I can tell, has to do with private platforms. If I'm correct, now we're in the same page and can have the discussion you were looking for. Am I correct in that thinking?