Well, that's ignorant as hell but I don't think it proves much of anything. My whole position is that I don't think hardly anybody outside the libertarian sphere really supports freedom of speech in all its various tendrils.
I view the right as a bigger threat both because the particular categories of speech they want banned are more concerning, and because they've at least partly hijacked the concept and are turning it into something more easily manipulated by the state.
The left's discomfort with hateful language and slurs directed at minority groups is not new, and the courts have pretty consistently stopped them from getting where they're trying to go. And I don't think their bleating about campaign finance restrictions are any more persuasive now than they ever have been.
The right's efforts to censor speech they view as anti-American, or anti-government (US or Israeli government), or anti-security are more dangerous, because the courts have historically shown those government interests more deference. The way the right is trying to create a "fairness doctrine" for the internet is a horrifying spectre, all the more so because they can couch it in terms of corporate regulation that people on the left are susceptible to entertaining.
The bottom line is that if you really care about free speech, you're not going to be very happy with either party on this issue. And to me the right loses extra points because they're :
- going after anti-government speech that is at the very heart of free speech as a principle, and
- co-opting the language of free speech advocacy to cloak their censorship initiatives.