Honestly how do you define it? Do you feel anyone should be able to say anything? This includes racial slurs and the whole nine yards. Just curious to hear from you if there is a point where freedom of speech crosses a line. Any examples you can think of?
Asshole! Sounds good to me. However do you believe there has to be limits for this? At some point someone is going to say something and it is going to cause harm to others. Is this where the law comes in for slander?
Uh, no not really. Anything, anytime, anywhere. I mean obviously bomb threats and stuff like that cant happen, but you get the idea.
What about false accustations that cost people money and damage their reputation? Just throwing things out here.
Well recently Mike Price, former University of Alabama football head coach won a lawsuit for defamation in which Sports Illustrated printed an article on Mike Price in which it said incorrect things about his involvement in a certain matter he was being investigated in. These comments they published were proven to be untrue but the damage was done to the many millions of people that subscribe to Sports Illustrated. Those comments while untrue are printed in a publication that millions of people rely on for truthful reporting. If a magazine published an article accusing you of being an child molestor and before you could defend yourself in the court of law these statements caused you to be fired from your job and ridiculed by others do you not think that this magazine should be punished for this?
The funny thing is, unless the plaintiff can prove that Sports Illustrated published the facts knowing that they were untrue, there is absolutely no legal basis for any sort of lawsuit
Yeah sure, you should be able to take the offender to court and sue them. When I say anthing, anywhere, anytime I mean in general. But even still in the above case, nobody is saying they CANT do it, they just have to be held responsible. And by being held responsible, I dont mean beheadings and riots
To me the Freedom of Speech is the ability to stand on a streetcorner and blaspheme the most powerful person in the said country. If you are allowed to say ANYTHING you want, no matter how vile or untrue about a leader, than you have free speech. Don't expect it to go unchallenged though.
freedom to express whatever you like whenever you want. It does not exist in any civil country since it's illegal to speak about state secrets.
I define freedom of speech as being able to wear a t-shirt to a conference which says "2245 dead. How many more?" without being thrown out. Oh yeah, Cindy Sheehan tried that and got kicked out and arrested. So much for the first amendment.