"Free speech" has always been recognised as a relative term, of course. In some places it is, or has been, freer than in others. But has there ever been a society in which it was totally free? Sounds like a recipe for anarchy to me. But then, of course, there are anarchists ~~ or those claiming to be. But how they would fare in a community with no laws and restrictions is, as ever, a worthwhile speculation... So with absolute 'free speech' with no sort of relativism involved.

~M~