User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/SOPA and PIPA Situation Summary/@comment-4489562-20120118024434/@comment-4625146-20120118031121

Your freedom of speech is not sacrosanct. Freedom of speech doesn't allow you to perpetrate hatred and encourage violence against certain groups as defined under federal law, for example. Generally, freedom of speech isn't protected when that speech's sole purpose is to perpetrate criminal activity (e.g. conspiracy to commit treason). It's in this established legal framework that laws like this can exist. (Just remember that this isn't the problem. That legal framework is what lends minorities protection from the mob, after all.)