For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restriction on free speech in the best interest of the good order of the community and common sense.
Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.
While we as members of the Coalition strongly support free speech, it is not unlimited free speech. People aren't free to vilify others on the basis of race or religion.
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.
I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.
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