Just a thought, I had to Google the word "frothy" in conjunction with the name Santorum to find out why the nickname is used. Now I know. This is why we need more limits on free speech.
What specific limits to people’s free speech do you suggest?
If the intent is to inflict suffering on a person or damage his reputation using obscene terminology. There is no excuse for it, no benefit to humanity, and it's not even funny! In a closed setting, like a live comedy act, it is perhaps different.
Thank God we have you to determine what is and isn't funny!
Not to derail the thread, but another example: A little girl suffering from the disease progeria makes videos on Youtube. The poor little thing looks horribly disfigured, but she has an innocent loving heart. There are goofballs posting horrible comments on her videos, and someone even put up a website that makes fun of her and talks about how she should be killed in heinous ways. I think that should be at least a civil offense if not criminal. We need to go back to public floggings!
As children, we're taught to respect others, and that it's wrong to say certain things. But as adults we have courts that allow the most sickening things under free speech.