Free Speech 9 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Cases that set the right to free expression against the harm that words and images can cause.
- Season 4 · Episode 19
Appearances
A nine-year-old pageant contestant is found raped and murdered in a suitcase, and after her killer is caught, Cabot tries to hold the publisher of the material that inspired him responsible.
- Season 5 · Episode 22
Painless
A woman who reported a rape after nearly suffocating dies of an insulin overdose in the hospital, and the trail leads to the deaf scientist behind a suicide website.
- Season 6 · Episode 3
Obscene
The rape of a teenage TV star pits a decency crusader against a shock jock, until the culprit turns out to be the crusader’s own son.
- Season 12 · Episode 12
Possessed
A masked attack on a young woman reveals she was the child in a notorious series of abuse films, and the man acquitted of making them still walks free.
- Season 13 · Episode 15
Hunting Ground
The disappearance of a 16-year-old escort leads SVU to a beach full of bodies and a game keeper who hunts women for sport, while Benson and Haden begin dating.
- Season 15 · Episode 15
Comic Perversion
A comedian who builds his act on rape jokes is accused of raping a college student, and SVU’s case against him becomes a fight over free speech.
- Season 16 · Episode 11
Agent Provocateur
A 15-year-old fan of a movie star is found drugged in a suitcase after his hotel party, and the security video that could show what happened is in the hands of a gossip site.
- Season 18 · Episode 17
Real Fake News
A conspiracy website’s false story about a congressman and a child sex ring endangers a restaurant and SVU’s own families, but the frame behind it leads to a real trafficking operation.
- Season 19 · Episode 12
Info Wars
When a far-right pundit is sexually assaulted during a campus riot, SVU must decide whether an antifa protester or one of her own fans attacked her.