the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president. 2. (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. 3. Rhetoric. a figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity.
Definition of freedom of speech. : the legal right to express one's opinions freely.
The free speech/press guarantee extends to all viewpoints, good or evil. There is no exception, for instance, for Communism, Nazism, Islamic radicalism, sexist speech, or hate speech, whatever that rather vague term may mean. Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea.