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 first amendment was never intended to provide some all-encompassing right to each citizen to say anything they want, to anyone they want, whenever they want. Freedom of speech was simply a protection against government censorship of speech or publications that criticized government policy or action.