How did the USA go from “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” to nearly sentencing someone to death for saying something the government didn’t approve of?

I am 100% against that stereotype that people just say whatever tf they want, but they don’t. The ones that do are a tiny minority and not worthy of people getting locked up.<br><br>The title is in reference to Brandon Walker, who made that stupidity video about the rugby players death, and how now he’s on a 5 year supervision and had to delete all his social media accounts. I just don’t think it should be the governments place to do that, that’s a classic example of mob mentality and trial by media, in which the government should’ve stayed out of. Sure, it might have upset the family and a lot of people, but the guy apologised, and that was all we could’ve asked for, hell, even most of the people that got mad at him did end up apologising to him. It’s just wrong for the government to prosecute him for what he said.<br><br>Edit: I’m not saying he was right in what he said, because I don’t think any decent human would be. I’m talking about a moral standpoint of him having the right to say it without it being illegal and him being put away for it.