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I get it that this is your definition. But it's defective and misrepresentative. Still, I replied with your definition in mind.
Freedom of speech as a concept has no limits, and at least within US law, has no limits there either. You have to go back to quotes taken out of context from ancient Supreme Court rulings that have effectively been overturned (and were later retracted by the justice quoted) to think otherwise.
The trouble of course if you just don't like freedom of speech. But the public is enamored with it and they romanticize it, so you can't publicly be honest about not liking it. Thus the mental gymnastics that there are "limitations".
The opposite is true. The lynchings happen when no one can talk about it. When you shut up people who were only ever going to mouth off, you inevitably spur some to take it farther and to venture into action.
But that takes a few years, and in the meantime you can pretend that you've "cleaned up hatred".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#Limitations
Everything in the universe, including universe itself has limits.
Cant take you serious, I am out of the discussion, there is no one on earth who does not like free speech, it is about misinformation and other variables, mentioned above and e.g. misinformation is not spreading freedom, it is to deceive others, on purpose or by accident.