Free Speech is the birth right of the citizens of Democratic countires, with limited regulations that curtails defamatorty speech. Without Free speech Democracy does not exist and People will lose all their Constitutional Rights and Human Rights. Truth is spoken which does not constitute Contempt of Court. People have right to criticize Judgements of Courts, without making personal allegations aganist Judges. In Democratic Countries People have right to criticize People who have been in Public life, holdinghigh Offices for official dereliction of duty and their Personal life. Freedom of Free speech to criticize must be a constructive criticize, that must always impress People holding high offices to introspection, but it should not hurt them. Free Speech always strgenthen Democracy, restore the Constitutional Rights, Human Rights of the People of the country. Free speech root out corruption from the society as individual certainly realise what is wrong and what is right. Executive, Legislature, Judiciary, Bureaucracy fallow Rule of Law.
Limits on freedom is unthinkable. Technology has the power and capabilities, and is capable of developing more and more, to place instantly counter views to balance the negative- positive effects. There would have been no growth of knowledge had limits been put on freedom of speech and expression and the only books which would have been available to mankind would have been the Vedas, Bible & Koran. Let there be as many challenges as possible to the beliefs and thoughts as inquisitive minds can throw, so that newer and newer frontiers of knowledge get unlocked. Our present knowledge is not equal to even a drop in the ocean.
The problem is: How free are nazis among jewish people? or how free are Hindus in an Islamic nation? If we solve this we can sove the internet freedom problem.
One hundred years from now we shall still be talking about the wisdom of putting limits on free speech. This question can never be resolved.
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