If they did nothing, it would surely have been taken away. Likewise, our freedoms end where another person's start, and vica versa. Respect for one another, and responsibility for our words and actions may be seen as passe by some. But that is a dangerous fools game. If you ignore the rules of safely driving a car, you will probably destroy the car and possibly kill yourself or others in the process.
Rights automatically indicate responsibility to manage and maintain that right.
I forget who, had a dangerous side to it as well. Freedom of Speech to these folks meant that children should have access to anything they want. In some cases this thinking is a little silly, in others it is simply dangerous. A child with a clock repair book is probably merely bored, while a child with access to any book or website at all could easily get tangled up in material they are not prepared to cope with. We are flesh and blood with daily lives and trials just like most of you out there.