Explain Why There Should Have Restrictions On Freedom Of Speech

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Freedom of Speech

Should there be restrictions on freedom of speech?

It is a natural right for people to say anything they want to say. There is no legal right to stop them or prevent them from saying what they want to say. Some opinions that people voice may not be liked by others, but everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. Also, there’s no reason for the government to trample and try to take away people’s right to freedom of speech.

These rights are for people in the United States. Some people think that there should be restrictions on freedom of speech by limiting things people are allowed to say. Others think that people are entitled to their own opinion and should be allowed to say anything they want. Freedom of Speech requires …show more content…

“There are those who believe that if they think it or feel it, then they have the right to express it, fact or opinion, however the spirit moves them. They have a point: It's called freedom of speech.” (“Freedom of Speech?” Linda Laskowski-Jones.) Exchanging ideas and collaborating is essential to everyday life. It helps create new ideas for different situations. People who are restricted to Freedom of Speech lack exchanging ideas and collaborating with others. Some people feel if they are restricted to Freedom of Speech they’ll never be able to say what they really want to say. They were told not say their own opinion and they can’t engage in conversation and …show more content…

Free speech whether you agree with what one person or a group is saying or if you think it’s not important should be important to you because if you start restricting people’s free speech you are on the road to dictatorship unless you are doing it for a special reason. For example, being at war and imprisoning those who support the enemy like in world war 2. There’s people that will randomly yell hate or inappropriate words, and that’s the reason most people think there should be restrictions on freedom of speech. Yelling hate or inappropriate words are not protected by the 1st Amendment because their inappropriate form of free speech. “It is widely accepted that the First Amendment does not apply, or applies only weakly, to what are often referred to as "low-value" categories of speech. It is also widely accepted that the existence of these categories extends back to the ratification of the First Amendment: that the punishment of low-value speech has never, since 1791, been thought to raise any constitutional concern.” (“The invention of low-value speech” Harvard Law

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