Liberals shouldn’t cede the responsibility to defend free speech on college campuses to conservatives. After all, without free speech, what’s liberalism about?
Trump loves free speech only when he or his supporters are speaking.
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate – especially (especially!) within Muslim communities.
People who hate me call me a Twitter troll, which is laughable given my extensive body of work, which you can find on Amazon in the form of books like ‘Gorilla Mindset’ and my documentary on free speech, ‘Silenced.’
With honest discussion, free speech, let people’s voices be heard.
You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you’re anything else, you’re gonna get burned at the stake.
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a ‘basic human right’ possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.
It’s obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody’s work.
The new right-wing movement is a wide group of people committed to free speech, anti-war, trade. It’s sympathetic to whistleblowers.
Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive.
Imageboards are the most important medium for free speech on the Internet.
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.
We have ways to protect the public when free speech crosses over in hate speech.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation’s problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a ‘root’ issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue.
Twitter is a form of free speech, and I’m all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can’t get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?
I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you’re allowed to censor it.
If I, as a liberal, didn’t speak out against those who would squelch the free speech of conservatives, I wouldn’t deserve to call myself a liberal.
If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say ‘You know what? Free speech.’ People would say that is wrong.
You can’t have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they’re not going to hear them in America. I believe it’s part of their education.
With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can’t legislate that. It must be voluntary – especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink.
Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
American democracy is greater with free speech and open dialogue.
I want to stand up for free speech.
It’s not OK to condone violence because of free speech.
Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.
I think it’s important, however, that as we again talk about the importance of free speech we make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not America they are not who were they are not what we do and they will be prosecuted, so I want that message to be clear also.
Advocates of ‘free speech’ often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
I’m a free speech bigot. I don’t like censorship; I just don’t think it’s a good thing.
I’m a strong believer in free speech to the degree that I support everybody’s right to speak, including those whose views I find disgusting.
Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid ‘absurd results’ and to avoid constitutional problems – such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.
If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
I can’t emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.
I will continue to speak out against the views of both Limbaugh and Hannity when I feel it’s warranted, meeting their free speech with my own. But I will never forget that, without them, I’d have a much smaller platform on which to do it.
You can’t come up and attack someone because of free speech.
Donald Trump doesn’t care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head doesn’t care about the amendment which lets him do that.
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a ‘free beer’ kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
I don’t think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.
The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another’s rights to free speech, too.
Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences.
It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.
I think our fans and NFL fans are very passionate about our country and our men and women who fight for our freedom, our freedom to free speech and free protest for that matter.
Poking fun at other people’s beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public’s right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government.
It’s a pleasure to land here and see Australia upholding its commitment to free speech and Western culture – something that may not be here for much longer if left-wing Australian politicians continue their pathological worship of multiculturalism.
Money is speech. It’s incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It’s absurd.
In cyberspace, people with different skin colors, nationalities, cultures and languages should be equally entitled to participation, free speech and development. We should abandon prejudices, respect differences, and be tolerant and open.
Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English political virtues – rule of law, free speech, the franchise.
As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
Conservatives should defend free speech – but we must not amplify it when it’s blatantly grotesque.
To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life.
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called ‘vices’, to be free of intruders, and to privacy.
I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don’t like.
We are a country that believes in free speech and the open debate of ideas. We’re a country that also believes in the Second Amendment and our ability to have guns. But we’ve got to figure out a way to keep America safe.
