“You have free speech when you can say something that most people consider offensive or outrageous, a view that is held by very few people and not be punished for saying it,” Fox host and man who continues on his Tour du Tyrrants Tucker Carlson claims, wrongly. “That’s what free speech is.”
No, Tuckums, that’s not what free speech is. Free speech, in the Constitutional sense, is the ability to speak freely without censorship from the government. You can still be punished for it if people, say, stop buying advertising on your show because protesters organized effective boycotts or you get harassed when you go out to dinner at a restaurant by people who think you’re a lying fascist determined to bring down the nation.