However, with freedom of speech comes the responsibility of diligent expression, without abusing or threatening the freedom of others.

The reflection of various views promotes plurality and through the acceptance of different and opposing perspectives, that invoke critical evaluation and rational debate, democracy can constantly reinvent itself and society can progress by implementing better laws and policies. The free exchange of opinions and ideas whether exercised by speech, in writing or expressed as freedom of the press, is foundational for a free and democratic society to function. Constitution, as well as by the constitutions and statutes of the majority of advanced nations. It is one of the founding principles of the United States, guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. The freedom of holding your own opinion and being able to express it freely without censorship or any fear of punishment or persecution is a fundamental and universal human right since the Enlightenment.

It is the mother of all rights and a prerequisite for all other rights or liberties.

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