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Is FREEDOM of SPEECH really free?

All from IMUS' racist comments. Imagine this... if you side with him that it was ok to say what he said due to FREEDOM of SPEECH, then how come Howard Stern was always attacked for what he said? You can hear Howard, but have to pay for it. So to have FREEDOM of SPEECH you need to pay for it. Is it really free? Stop and think about it for a second...

Update:

Ok, how come you would be fired from your job for making the same comments? How come our news reporters do not use the same words while reporting the news?

Point is that we must actual pay for the chance to be in an arena that allows freedom of speech without consiquences.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    The cost of Freedom is Blood son. The world will always have its "Sterns" & "Imus'" foolishly nattering about things they will never understand.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    there's a great distinction between freely expressing your self and pushing your perspectives onto others. case in factor, you ought to oppose abortion and placed across it to the worldwide, yet in case you're attempting to make it unlawful you sidestep a woman from the properly suited to a secure abortion (they in spite of the actuality that take place, legal or no longer) and likewise you're actually not any further in ordinary terms workout session session your desirable to unfastened speech. If somebody is attacking you in ordinary terms for expressing your guy or woman perspectives, regardless of the actuality that, they're incorrect. i'm liberal, and function self concept me, there are as many conservatives (if not greater helpful) that oppose freedom of speech in a single way or yet yet another.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    there is no such thing as a free lunch, we pay through the nose for eveything.

  • 1 decade ago

    People are free to express themselves, and other people are free to respond also. And there is no "right" to be paid for what you say.

    The freedom of speech that our soldiers have paid so dearly for, ought not to be wasted on filth, however.

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  • 1 decade ago

    It comes to about a dollar and a quarter ($1.25) a word.

  • Sane
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Its only free if your a liberal, then you can say what ever you wish without repercussion. If your a conservative, your persecuted.

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