Yep. Every discussion I've ever had with a "free speech absolutist" has gone like this. "What are your thoughts on false advertising laws?" "That's fine, beca

Yep. Every discussion I've ever had with a "free speech absolutist" has gone like this. "What are your thoughts on false advertising laws?" "That's fine, because fraud is a crime and therefore not speech" People have bucketed "things I think should be legal" as "speech" and "things I think should be illegal" as "not speech" and then this makes it trivial to say that all speech should be legal because the definition is circular.