Of course you know, but think left-wing that thought they'd always be in charge, and they still are in charge of way too much.
Free Speech, however, is proscribed in the workplace, the church, the school and the home. As an employee I will fire you if you speak contentiously about me or my business. A teacher requires civility and obedience in the classroom. A church may dismiss a member for speech that is offensive. Mom (or Dad) may wash your mouth with soap if you say that word one more time. Government, however, may not restrict my offensive speech. OTOH blocking traffic is not speech. It is blocking traffic. Rioting is not speech. It is rioting. Deliberately lying about a person you dislike is speech but it is not free. It is slander.
” It must mean that somewhere some derelict circuit court upheld this attack on the first amendment. “
Doesn’t look that way. From the decision:
“Tam sought federal registration of the mark “THE SLANTS.” The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) denied the application under a Lanham Act provision prohibiting the registration of trademarks that may “disparage . . . or bring . . . into contemp[t] or disrepute” any “persons, living or dead.” 15 U. S. C. §1052(a). Tam contested the denial of registration through the administrative appeals process, to no avail. He then took the case to federal court, where the en banc Federal Circuit ultimately found the disparagement clause facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause.”
The PTO appealed and it went to SCOTUS.