One reason the left feels so comfortable compelling speech is that compelled speech means they only ever hear things they agree with. It doesn't occur to them that much of it could be insincere, spoken out of fear rather than agreement. Censorship achieves a similar effect. The result is that they have vastly inflated conceptions of their organic support. A preference cascade is all but inevitable and will not end well for them.
One reason the left feels so comfortable compelling speech is that compelled speech means they only ever hear things they agree with. It doesn't occur to them that much of it could be insincere, spoken out of fear rather than agreement. Censorship achieves a similar effect. The result is that they have vastly inflated conceptions of their organic support. A preference cascade is all but inevitable and will not end well for them.
"Preference Falsification and Free Speech" would be a good undergraduate dissertation.
Hell, there's enough meat on those bones for a doctoral thesis or ten.