Free speech isn't something that can be given or provided to anyone, it's something which everyone has by nature of being human. You can speak. It requires the action of another person or groups of people to actively change that. It can only be infringed. Of course, when infringed to any degree short of actual afixment of a physical gag, the infringer can smile and say that you retain 'free speech'... but they can no longer claim to respect the notion that it is wrong for one person to infringe on the speech of another.