> This is not a free speech issue. Please be precise with your terminology.

Let me take a stab in the dark: you think "free speech" refers only to the United States' First Amendment, and not a universal principle, which:

* according to Wikipedia, is "a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction"

* or, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is the "freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."