The outcome is only uncertain for those who disbelieve.

I think people are often too quick to judge something as censorship or as violating their freedom of speech, actually.  Sure, freedom of speech is important, just as freedom of religion is important, but when you start using offensive language or try to be verbally abusive to other people, and get punished for it, that’s not against freedom of speech, that’s ‘for’ being decent human beings. So many times have I seen people’s posts or threads locked on forums because they for instance called a disabled person a “f***ing retard” or started slinging racial slurs or random insults, only to then come crying that they’ve been censored. Freedom of speech is about being allowed the ability to have and state your opinion, but it doesn’t imply that other people need to tolerate being attacked for example, or that you can get away with anything. In that sense I don’t think it should be ‘absolute’ but it should be reasoned, it should be sensible, based on equality and empathy at the same time.