“Free speech is about as good a cause as the world has ever known. But it…gets shoved aside in favor of things which at a given moment more vital…everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.”

Hate Speech? Something that cannot be defined in legal terms, it's malleable as silly putty in the hands of leftist social justice warriors who in their zeal unceremoniously throw free speech in an unmarked grave and gleefully shovel in the dirt to bury it alive and screaming for true justice.

Free speech is a great inalienable right. The occupying statist theocracy infesting this land does not agree. Most favor free speech as a talking point in down times — not when it interrupts their religious dogma.

It's like diluting the currency by printing more money without an equal amount of backing — current holders' money is now devalued, i.e. inflation.  Same for 'words' — it does not take many words to tell the truth.  But with a flood of words, often charged to fever pitch, simple truths are drowned out and diluted and tainted.  That's using 'free speech' as a weapon, and the same responsiblities apply to the speaker as to the armed citizen.