[actualwitch]

> And I think they only way you can change someone's mind is by allowing free speech and engaging in conversations with them to try to change their minds

... if the person you are engaging with is open to having their mind changed. If you ever tried that with online trolls, you would quickly find out that's not really going to happen when person on the other side doesn't want that and can just decide to waste as much of your time as they can.