For most of American history, neither the legislators nor the courts saw a contradiction between censorship on obscenity grounds and free speech. And in princip

For most of American history, neither the legislators nor the courts saw a contradiction between censorship on obscenity grounds and free speech. And in principle, we still recognize that principle: it's just we define the line arbitrarily and subjectively around things like snuff films and child porn. The current interpretation of free speech is a mutant interpretation of the concept as written by the founding generation.