There have been many arguments that speech can be “dangerous”. That is the basis of hate speech laws, fighting word laws, and a host of others.
Even the first generation after the Revolution saw vast restrictions on the exercise of free speech in political areas. The Alien and Sedition acts jailed people who spoke poorly of government officials.
My point is that “Free Speech” has never been totally free. There have been restrictions on what can be said, where, and by whom since the beginning of the country.
>> There have been restrictions on what can be said, where, and by whom since the beginning of the country.
The great danger of course is that the restrictions, e.g., “hate speech” can, in any given instance, be interpreted and expanded to whatever degree some judge chooses. This is the inevitable outcome of the so-called “living Constitution” doctrine. “IT MEANS WHATEVER WE SAY IT MEANS!”