Do Americans Really have Freedom of Speech?
Is Freedom of Speech used Still Today? It has been common today to dismiss people’s views on certain subjects, so are people really getting to use their right of Freedom of Speech? When given the topic of Freedom of Speech most people will agree that anyone can state their own opinion, but when their opinion’s clash, some believe that the other person is slandering them. You would think that the option to state your opinion freely without getting yelled at or told that your unfair. Americans today tend to believe Freedom of Speech is limited, such as you can say your opinion as long as it doesn’t offend anyone else. Oliver Kam acknowledges in the article “Free Speech Should Not is Regulated” (Civil Liberties 2009) ‘The traditional balance between free speech and respect for the feelings of others is evidently becoming harder to sustain’. Freedom of Speech today has drastically changed since put into effect, people are afraid to say what they believe in because they do not want to upset anyone. Freedom of Speech is defined as the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint. Such a right was put into effect by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. People acknowledge such freedom as a cautionary thing or even abuse such freedom. Some will say ‘I can say whatever I want’ and others will tell them ‘don’t say that it’s offensive’. Technically Americans do not have Freedom of Speech, because if they did have it then people would not worry about what other people think of what their beliefs are. The opinions should only matter to us! Freedom of Speech will not only be offensive to some people, the thing in which the opinion is based will alone upset people. So Freedom of Speech is a popular controversial subject, such as the Freedom to talk about Religion freely. Americans will say they have the right to speak as we want about religion but do we really? If one person is Muslim and another