MYRON MAGNET: Free Speech In Peril. “If it sounds as though we are back in the days when ladies fainted at the mention of the legs of pianos, which had to wear skirts for decency, and when one couldn’t utter words ‘that would bring a blush to the cheek of a young person,’ as Dickens jeered, we are.” Punch back twice as hard. Censorship is less fun when it’s painful.