It is like saying: just because you wore a high quality parachute does not mean you managed gravity. The entire point of a parachute, para (alongside) plus chute (to slide through), is to manage gravity while falling from the sky.
If freedom of speech was not created to manage consequences, there would be no point for it at all. Things that have no consequences require no "freedom" to or from them. To accept the sentiment that freedom of speech ought not to protect controversial opinion is to render the concept meaningless. In that reading, literally every government in the world could claim it upholds freedom of speech, just not freedom from consequences for that speech.
spacedcowboy•1h ago
Sadly, that woman's employer might be more delusional than herself, support the pedophile rapist, and decide to terminate her employment. Now those are indeed consequences of her exercising her right to free speech, at least in a symbolic form, but it wasn't the pedophile-in-power imposing them, it was the toadying employer.