Free Speech is alive and well here in the good old US of A. Don't let any one convince you otherwise. You are completely free to say any thing you want, any place you want, any time you want.

Just do not let any one hear you is the trick.

Too many people in this day and age have had such a soft life without any true concept of personal suffering, strenuous labor for a true pittance of a wage and the grand benefit of having a vague idea of not only their next meal but of how much they will eat of it.

Those people miss the hardships of life so if they happen to hear something that doesn't make them feel 100% good, then it is a grievous harm and is therefore unacceptable. And of course "unacceptable" is a codeword for "Absolutely forbidden and highly illegal...Manditory Death Penalty if we had to stones to actually kill anyone." Of course actually killing someone might force some sort of hardship on a person (like doing something) and would naturally be illegal as well.

So in short, you can have free speech so long as no one hears you.

The rules are ridiculous. What is even more ridiculous is that they took up time to even address this issue.

IMO, Congress should either deal with some meaningful legislation or just go home.

Enough of the BS from both sides.