Free speech does not apply in any of these cases. These are all privately owned platforms. The first Amendment protects the populace from the government policing speech.
How many times is this tr[oi]pe going to be blindly repeated before its promoters bother to look up the definition of free speech and find it's a more general concept than simply the first amendment to the US Constitution?
I suppose this misbelief is itself a demonstration that truth and justice do not necessarily prevail in open argument. Still, we are better off with many terrible ideas persisting than to further allow those in power to arbitrate truth.
People, especially groups used to enjoying privilege, always mistake what “free speech” is. Free Speech is the right to be free from GOVERNMENT suppression of speech, not prevailing attitudes, not private companies and institutions and not public sentiment. Expressing racist, homophobic and sexist ideas in a private company that has employee guidelines that forbade expressing hurtful speech has just consequences.
Privileged people feel they are above repercussion because to admonish them encroaches on their sense of entitlement to privilege.
You're confusing free speech and first amendment. Free speech is an Enlightenment ideal much like the golden rule, i.e. "treat others the way you want to be treated". It's a good thing to strive for in a society, whether the first amendment exists or not.
Actually they were named khpr as a manifestation of the deity Khpri who is the morning sun, having emerged from the night. The Ancient Egyptians described the sun as navigating a great river in the sky which was the Milky Way and a reflection of the Nile River on earth.
