I heartily agree with your statements I have read, and this one as much as any. I'm confused to read you consider yourself on the left, as I understand that to be in favor of state power and approving of taxing folks to fund government initiatives that cause folks to naturally curtail their speech in order to not jeapordize their dole.
What I read here, and in all your posts, indicates instead that you oppose the corrupt state imposing it's will on free people--the very definition of conservatism. I'm not trying to generate strife or some rift, but trying to grasp the meaning of the terms 'left' and 'right' which seem to be without meaning as you and I haven't a farthing of disagreement on the topics you have published that I have read.
The late Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum, a bastion of arch-conservatism, once opined that I was an ultra-conservative. I but consider myself a 'classical liberal' meaning I oppose efforts to constrain the right of people to live and speak as they wish, as well as the theft of my labor by armed thugs.
Maybe there's a more meaningful suite of labels that would sensibly include we both in a group. It was remarkable to me that in '1984' Orwell related how words determine how we think. Our beliefs indeed inform our perceptions, and I suspect that the labels 'left' and 'right' might impose a needless schism between us, who seem fully in agreement as to the most substantive matters at hand.