Awesomely described. The trend nowadays dictates that honesty and straightforwardness are to be sacrificed to diplomacy and pretentiousness.

It always starts with good intentions. Racism must be stopped, right? Sexism must be stopped. Equal opportunities for everyone. Everyone deserves love!

...It always ends up oppressing people the same way it condemns, because it is being imposed. Freedom of speech is the worst form of oppression, since just like you said, any form of expression can be equally refuted.

Restricting freedom of speech means that:

1. You don't know how people think since they are being fake. Human interaction is superficial.
2. You don't have a way of getting in contact with opposing ideas, which might hold some truths and teach you something, or at least spark some interesting thoughts and debates.
3. You reinforce your own opinions in an eco-chamber and there is no one to point out your own fallacies.
4. People hold bitter feelings and might explode later on, going radical.
5. You give value to some ethics/opinions/ideologies and disregard and silence others, doing the exact same thing you oppose.

I was always met with chants of I don't like Freedom of Speech and I'm only holding my leftist stance because it's popular, yet what he failed to realise that I did not shut him down nor disallow him from posting.

That pretty much sums it up!