Freedom of speech means the ability to say things that some people might not want to hear. ----George Orwell

Orwell was a British writer who fought and was wounded in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. After the war he underwent a conversion:  he realized that the greatest threat to human liberties came not from the Right, but from the Left. He wrote 2 classic books on that subject: 1984 and  Animal Farm. 

His insight is valid today where liberals and progressives are shutting down free speech and free thought. These folks are the new fascists and people are slowly, but surely coming to that conclusion.