[jyounker]

Since at least the 70s everyone knew that it caused lung cancer. It's just that industry spending prevented anyone from doing something about it, in the exactly the same way that we've been seeing with global warming.

[pstuart]

Again, free speech as commonly used, is about Constitutional protection from the government trying to curtail and/or punish individual's speech.

Prior to the internet, the "free speech" you're thinking of was down to whoever owned the printing press of interest.

The OP was about the government punishing a woman for criticizing their public utility.

[jyounker]

I wasn't replying to the OP.