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We have such things as Truth in Lending laws and Truth in Advertising (not often enforced, but sometimes). The Constitution guarantees individual rights. Those are business regulations that are not imposed on individuals.
We have slander and libel laws. Slander and libel are forms of defamation, and aren't criminal. The government doesn't prevent you from making defamatory statements, but simply provides an avenue for wrongly defamed people to sue for damages. And, in U.S. courts, truth is always a valid defense against slander claims (if I have evidence to suggest that a claim is true and you sue me for slander, you will lose no matter HOW damaging that information is.)
We have copyright laws. That's because literary and artistic works are property, and unauthorized duplication is theft. This is a property restriction, and not a speech restriction. When distributing copyrighted content, you aren't using your free speech rights because you aren't communicating anything at all...you are simply transferring someone else's speech to a third party. That's fine, unless that third party doesn't want their media transferred...at that point it becomes theft.
People can be arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced for making verbal threats against someone else's life and/or property even if no action is taken on those threats. Generally speaking, this is only true if there is reasonable cause to believe that the person had the intent and capability to carry out those threats. There are literally thousands of citeable cases where people have been charged with making these threats, and have been let off based on the "I was pissed off and just spouting bullshit" defense. Unless the prosecution can establish that there was a reasonable chance that they intended to carry out those threats, these cases often go nowhere. Making a statement in anger is rarely cause for imprisonment.
We have laws against harassment. Harassment is a vague term, but most of these laws are again targeted at businesses with the intent to enforce equality, and not against individuals. There are very few laws that cover harassment between individual people. Generally, if someone is harassing you, the most you can do is request a cease and desist order from a court, which will prevent that person from contacting you. This is entirely constitutional, as the Constitution also guarantees citizens the right to freely associate, and the USSC has determined that this also grants the right of an individual to NOT associate with you.
And we have "hate crime" legislation U.S. hate crime legislation is almost exclusively limited to prosecuting actual actions, and not speech. Assaulting someone because they're gay isn't speech. Neither is burning a cross on someone's lawn. Or spray painting hate messages on the side of someone else's building. You'll note that it's PERFECTLY LEGAL to burn crosses on your own property, to rally against the "evil gays" on public property, or to place racist messages on buildings you own or billboards you pay for. American hate crime legislation merely stiffens the penalties for criminal acts that harm others or damage property while driven by hateful or racist ideology.
When it comes to individual speech, the United States is still among the least restrictive nations on the planet. Generally speaking, the government only steps in when that speech causes direct harm, or when there is a reasonable belief that it is a promise of direct harm to come in the immediate future.
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