Only if you have a narrow, pinched, legalistic definition of &quot;free speech&quot; which would be unrecognizable to any of the philosophers and statesmen who created our modern understanding of the concept.<p>If, for getting into an argument with certain people, you can be punished with being ostracized, fired, prevented from earning a living, demonized by the news media, and put through a years-long wringer in the courts, your freedom of speech is harmed even if at the end of it a judge says not guilty.