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"It's not illegal so that makes it cool."
I personally find the ides that if you want an eduction, which is required for modern living, you need to abandon your rights as a citizen. Mandatary and needed public goods shouldn't strip you of your mandatory and needed rights.
Students have their rights stripped, especially as a child, because some Karens and Kevins didn't want to be a member of the HOA, they wanted to be a school board member.
Bags searched and confiscated, protests shut down, students having harmless objects taken away out of a nebulous fear of "could maybe do somethig in the future".
I wouldn't say that's the sentiment expressed when people remind others of the limitations of freedom of speech. More like it's a reminder that knowing exactly where those boundaries lie because somethings aren't the government's job to mediate. Sometimes it's our collective job to resist because nobody is coming to fix it for you.
Realistically rights like the freedom of speech and expression are notoriously weak by way of actual protection by a culture. Russia technically has freedom of speech on the books but you can still be hauled off to prison for spreading "LGBTQIA propaganda". What actually protects those rights are the expectations and moreover the outrage of a culture's people against these acts of censorship regardless of who is perpetuating it.