Through the highest courts and the Ku Klux Klan. Throughline The Freedom of Speech The Freedom of Speech Listen · 48:52 48:52 Enlarge this image toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Book bans, disinformation, the wild world of the internet. Free speech debates are all around us.What were the Founding Fathers thinking when they created the First Amendment, and how have the words they wrote in the 18th century been stretched and shaped to fit a world they never could have imagined?