[danaris]

There are natural consequences of speech, and there are legal consequences of speech.

Natural consequences are things like if I say "I hate people who wear hats," and I get an internet mob coming after me to defend hats.

Legal consequences would be if I happen to wander into a jurisdiction that has outlawed badmouthing hat-wearers, and I get arrested.

Legal consequences of speech are restrictions on free speech, because they are something humans specifically and deliberately chose and could un-choose. Natural consequences are just that: natural.