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This tweet is correct about Chomsky's long-held, absolutist free speech views. But it's not just Chomsky. From Berkeley to ACLU, free speech absolutism has long been a central, defining belief of the left, which never used to trust institutions of authority with censorship power:
This is an exceptionally good @jacobinmag article by @ChipGibbons89 about how - and, more importantly, why - an absolutist defense of free political speech was long a linchpin belief of the American left, going back to Eugene Debs jacobinmag.com/2019/01/eugene…
Among @ChipGibbons89's many crucial points: 1) censorship most targeted anti-war dissidents & workers, 2) "weakening free speech rights will come back to haunt the Left — providing our opponents tools to silence us" & 3) anti-censorship precedents are vital weapons for the Left 
