Yes free speech is no easy thing. It is the desired outcome until it doesn't work. And there is the rub; Sometimes it doesn't work. India's back drop of new agriculture laws will be worked out politically, but politics in a democracy has the same problem. It's only delivers fair and equitable solutions until it doesn't. Now put a democracy and free speech together, and you have two ways to screw things up. Yeah OK, they can also fix things, but with no guarantee. Free speech and democracy work best when people are responsible and display an innate sense of fairness and compromise, without that, fair and equitable solutions die.
In a way, I'm happy to hear about India if only to make myself feel less alone knowing the US is not the only nation that needs to address this problem. And it is a problem and it needs to be addressed. I think it can be solved through compromise, which is anathema to purists. And there is another problem; purists.
Fortunately, for those who disagree with me, my perspective means nothing, so I should never be a bother to anyone.
