It feels strange that people often blame a lot of very recent social issues we have on the concept of free speech. I think that the problems we're running into today are mostly not really caused by speech rights, and restricting speech is not going to fix them either, it's just going to make things even shittier.
I think you're confusing something; few major problems are caused by free speech, but the expectation that free speech itself, in absence of other political actions, might lead to some material end seems to greatly inhibit peoples' ability to act outside of expression on social media.
