Freedom of Speech was never intended to, nor does it, cause more lies or less lies. What it does do, however, is ensure that the Gov't cannot have a monopoly on lies which is precisely what happens in Tyrannical Governments where the citizens are not allowed to publicly and openly disagree with their overlords.

There are people in Britain being jailed for what amounts "impoliteness" right now, and are simply not allowed to even politely speak out against their Gov't immigration policy for example. Once Freedom of Speech is taken away, the rest of the freedoms will also be taken away. Speech is always the first thing to go, because people tend to tolerate loosing it, due to not realizing until it's too late, that it's the most valuable thing of all.

Cool. None of that really has anything to do with what I said though, does it?

Nobody's freedom of speech has been taken away. What has been stopped is Jones' perceived "freedom of harassment" - he's allowed his opinion, he's not allowed to badger the hell out of the families based on his opinion, which is what he did.

Nobody has lost their freedom of speech because of this. Don't be silly.

I'm giving my own thoughts and opinions about Alex Jones. I'm not disagreeing with you about what Jones said, or saying he wasn't wrong in that case.

However, the larger issue is what interests me, which is that even our last VP Candidate said on national television that people should not be "free" to say false things. Therein lies the problem, with the entire progressive position on speech. Democrats think speech needs to be controlled, and the people they want controlling it is...of course...themselves.