Freedom of Speech

The massacre in Paris wasn't about freedom of speech.

"Naturally, I do not condone murdering journalists and graphic artists. But let us be very clear that these killings have nothing to do with freedom of speech or expression, regardless of how much Our Rulers and France’s try to cast them that way. Governments are the only ones who can restrict either freedom, and so far reports of this atrocity have not implicated France’s administration regardless of its other crimes. (I’m not even sure we could call it censorship had the government of Yemen, say, ordered Charlie Hebdo to cease publication of its calumnies against Islam. After all, what power can Yemen exercise over a foreign publication?)
No matter: facts never trouble demagogues set on inciting us against one another. Both the yahoo in the White House and his lapdog in London will continue bleating about “freedom of the press” and the various other liberties they eviscerate in their own countries while pretending that Moslem terrorists have somehow damaged us far more than our own totalitarianism has."

The cartoonists made two mistakes: first, intentionally angering killers - they shouldn't have done it to anybody - and second, counting on the government to protect them.

More on blowback from making people angry.

Even though NSA failed to warn of let alone stop the terrorist attack in Paris, Republicans claim the attack justifies NSA surveillance.

"Anyone with his head free of his butt — which excludes quite forcefully “GOP Senators”–would of course arrive at precisely the opposite conclusion. Recall that the NSA ostensibly exists for just this purpose: to monitor foreigners, especially those allegedly plotting murder and mayhem, and forestall their evil plans. Even the NSA’s most ardent critics usually concede that point; they despise the agency because it has spied on Americans, too. (It is exceedingly rare that anyone anywhere  understands enough of the Constitution and libertarian philosophy to damn both the NSA’s existence and its spying, whether domestic or foreign.)"

Government failure.

The terrorists can't stop freedom of speech, but the French government is trying.