The Constitution ONLY restricts the feds. It is up to the people of each state to decide whether they want freedom of speech or not and vote and/or recall and/or launch inititaives accordingly.
Wrong.
The 14th Amendment has been interpreted over the years to apply the Constitutional restrictions on Congress to the legislatures of the several states.
I’m thinking the rights of free speech as provided in the Federal Constitution apply to the states via the 14th Amendment. They can set a standard that is less restrictive than the US Const., but they cannot set a standard more restrictive of individual rights protected by the Constitution.
This could be challenged on federal constitutional grounds, I think.