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You can have your natural rights abrogated if you commit a crime. John Locke said so, at least. Well, in order to know the limits of free speech, we must know its purpose. The original purpose of it, as it appeared in English Common Law, was as a defense against libel charges. The idea was that...

That's the sort of Hobbesian definition of freedom, sure. It's the ability "to buy, and sell, and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own aboad, their own diet, their own trade of life, and institute their children as they themselves think fit; the like." Freedom in this sense...

Here's a discussion here for those of us who disagree on the definitions of those things and how they can be justified. In modern pluralistic societies, people have so many definitions of these things, it's difficult to count. So I want to put this out there. Let all ye willing to discuss this come.