When did free speech begin? It began with free will given by the Creator of the heavens and the earth. God did not create human robot. A man can choose good things or evil things, as both good and evil were created as options. In the garden of Eden, God told man to freely eat of any tree in the garden, except of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. I perceive that censorship is of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Some authority could deem some news are good but some other news are bad.