But calling victims of truck accident trash or making fun of burning children should not be considered freedom of speech.
You are just doing that to take joy out of other peoples misery.
I dont think you understand what free speech is.
Freedom of speech doesn't only include "good speech" or speech that everyone likes and agrees with. If that's what it was then we wouldn't need to defend free speech, because everyone already likes and agrees with it.
Problem is, that people like different things. Speech that you like I might find offensive and vice versa.
E.g. This sherdoger thought the grenfell tower joke was funny, you thought it was offensive and awful.
Its a sad day when the sources the OP quotes are true. I'm not going to defend them as I find them all to be distasteful, but I still find them to be well withing the confines of where free speech should fall.
I don't think Nazi Pug guy was trying to offend anyone, he was trying to make a joke. A bad one, but a joke either way. The tower joke actually was funny, even though the owners of said tower should be sued into oblivion for being idiots and wrapping the tower into a deathtrap (if they knew, that's all a legal thing). As for the trash truck, I would say the same thing about any dump truck going though Detroit, LA, Cleveland, Miami, DC, whatever...
Regardless, they were bad jokes but jokes either way. They weren't meant to ffoend a singular group, but to make light of a terrible situation. Whcih has been a pillar of comedy for centuries, and shouldn't be stopped. If something is done purely out of hatred, sure. But otherwise, leave it alone.
You see? If you make offensive speech illigal, we'll all be in prison because everything's offensive to someone somewhere.
That's why free speech is important.
It's for offensive speech, speech that's not popular, you're not for free speech if you only defend the speech you agree with, you defend free speech by defending speech that you disagree with, regardless of how vile or grossly offensive you find it to be.
And when I say defend it I mean from cencership, or from things like the government arresting people for free speech. criticism of speech you don't like is ok, but silencing and cencership isn't.
You say "But calling victims of truck accident trash or making fun of burning children should not be considered freedom of speech."
It is freedom of speech. the defenition is clear "the right to express any opinions or ideas without censorship or restraint."
jokes obviously fall under that defenition.
You think it shouldn't be considered freedom of speech because you don't like it. You don’t decide whether or not something falls under free speech based on how you feel about it. You decide based on the defenition of what free speech really is.