Freedom of Speech?

Long, long ago, when learning the meaning of free speech, I recall being taught that this freedom didn’t mean that we could say anything we wanted, no matter the harm it might cause others. For instance, we could not yell “FIRE” in a crowded theater, because it would cause a panic and people would be injured. Somewhere in the past few decades, we seem to have forgotten the do-no-harm maxim. People seem to think they can malign others and propose outlandish possibilities with no thought to the consequences. Is freedom of speech repeating lies until they seem like truth? And why do we not feel free to refute lies? Isn’t that freedom of speech, too? If you decide to teach your baby that “war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength” [George Orwell] is that your right to do so? Shouldn’t someone tell you that is wrong? In much the same way these metaphysical teachings are showing us, thoughts and words are how we create our reality — even if it is not true. We make up illusionary worlds for ourselves all the time. But must we accept what others create for us?

“The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened, and thus made to hold, is one of the distortions on which the reverse of the Golden Rule rests. As these false underpinnings are given up, the equilibrium is temporarily experienced as unstable. However, nothing is less stable than an upside-down orientation. Nor can anything that holds it upside down be conducive to increased stability.”
A Course in Miracles T-1.V.6:4-7

“Against the fatal beliefs that error is as real as Truth, that evil is equal in power to good if not superior, and that discord is as normal as harmony, even the hope of freedom from the bondage of sickness and sin has little inspiration to nerve endeavor. When we come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man, then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 368:10-18