Freedom of Speech and the Public Safety
Censorship, the MTRCB, and a Martyr from Tondo
Freedom of speech and the public safety
“Freedom of speech is the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, subject to the laws against libel, incitement to violence or rebellion, etc.” Yet we are bound to such limitations in expressing our right of speech that mainly endangers public and personal safety and affect silence of other aliens. We can express whatever we want to say in terms of arts, writings, songs, and many more but to what extent? We can talk freely about the issues that concerns us in a daily basis, talking to our workmates about politics, economics, science, calamities and a lot of topics. Truly, we can manipulate things in proper order and sequence as the days goes by without realizing that we went too far. We subsequently intended to freely enact things that is contributory to the betterment of the public but animus or hostile to other group or individual. We fail to think about the result of our actions, if it is indecent and can hurt other people’s silence or if it is against to their standards and moral principles.
I think that the freedom of speech must be used in manner that doesn’t destroy the reputation and sense of worship of other groups. As a responsible person, we chose things that can be uttered by not making stories or direct accusations that is not proven legally. We can’t talk about how bad a person is if we did not even know their character traits or behavior in general. Like what Rodolfo Vasquez stand in accusing the Barangay chairman for land grabbing, involve in gambling and stealing by writing it in an article of a newspaper. Remarkably a good idea but he must ingeniously chose the right word on his article specifically on the allegations that was not yet proven. If this is all about retaliation of what happened in the past with that particular person, then it’s not a good idea that we seek revenge and point out some hearsays and
Freedom of speech and the public safety
“Freedom of speech is the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, subject to the laws against libel, incitement to violence or rebellion, etc.” Yet we are bound to such limitations in expressing our right of speech that mainly endangers public and personal safety and affect silence of other aliens. We can express whatever we want to say in terms of arts, writings, songs, and many more but to what extent? We can talk freely about the issues that concerns us in a daily basis, talking to our workmates about politics, economics, science, calamities and a lot of topics. Truly, we can manipulate things in proper order and sequence as the days goes by without realizing that we went too far. We subsequently intended to freely enact things that is contributory to the betterment of the public but animus or hostile to other group or individual. We fail to think about the result of our actions, if it is indecent and can hurt other people’s silence or if it is against to their standards and moral principles.
I think that the freedom of speech must be used in manner that doesn’t destroy the reputation and sense of worship of other groups. As a responsible person, we chose things that can be uttered by not making stories or direct accusations that is not proven legally. We can’t talk about how bad a person is if we did not even know their character traits or behavior in general. Like what Rodolfo Vasquez stand in accusing the Barangay chairman for land grabbing, involve in gambling and stealing by writing it in an article of a newspaper. Remarkably a good idea but he must ingeniously chose the right word on his article specifically on the allegations that was not yet proven. If this is all about retaliation of what happened in the past with that particular person, then it’s not a good idea that we seek revenge and point out some hearsays and