free speech?
lets face it, it's almost the only thing left that's free, before they take it away incrementally at first, the mass will allow it, they have been dumbed down to think it's a great idea. i preach free speech although technically i'm not a man who talks. my thing is writing. i don't see the point in restricting peoples speech, let them say stupid things, let them be bigots or racists or just idiots, i'm offended everyday. silencing them will never stop their thoughts, perhaps even send them into even more twisted extremes, literature is filled with this stuff, it's out there in the world, it always has been. 
is it better said, no! but you can't ever control speech because it's connected with thought in most cases. 
speech has a power, it's a dimension that causes change to others directly. i think people just need to be careful what they say, considerate and constructive, have some level of the impact of words upon those that hear them but to restrict it is just another surrender of personal power to an authority that is fucked up. lawyers, magistrates, public servants and beurocracies, police and fucking ideological windbags. 
i'm a black jew so i've heard it all, am i offended, no, i let it go or exercise my right to counter the offence with a more reasonable perspective ! 
people should be able to say what they want, when they want, how they want, that's free speech. 
the real dilemma is embedded in how the information is received and processed.