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do you think freedpm of speech is abused in America?

i choose America cos i live there and im an American. so do u think that we say whatever we want and talk anyhow in America just cos the 1st amendment say's it's express our opinion and thoughts?

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  • R.AAA
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    YES, VERY MUCH ABUSED. SO ABUSED ITS FILING ASSAULT CHARGES LEFT AND RYT

  • 1 decade ago

    Progressivism is the problem.

    It is the action of trying to fix what isn’t broke and in the process totally breaking it.

    I sure felt freer before all of the do good liberals stepped in and decided to save me from myself when all they really had to do to save America was to stop corrupting it and ruining it in the first place. Had they only committed suicide instead then we'd all still be free.

    What they have done is unforgivable.

    They have waged racial McCarthyism on the average Joe and declared every poor white man a racist until proven otherwise, stepped all over our freedoms, stepped all over our freedom of religion and gave us a new religion in it's place that demands total obedience. What we have here is the snobby elitist enlightened rich liberals actually forcing their religion/belief system on us and making us an offer we can't refuse. They are persecuting the poor.

    Furthermore not only are they forcing their beliefs on us and not letting us have the option of refusing it. They are also taking away everything from us at the same time.

    We can't even have a country with borders or they say we are Nazis just because we want borders and the secure feeling that comes with knowing that we are still a free and sovereign nation. And for that we are Nazis? I thought we had the constitutional right to feel safe and secure in our own country.

    You know who the Nazis are?

    Rich, Little white ******* liberals.THAT"S WHO!

  • 1 decade ago

    Not abused so much as used by the wrong persons. I really don't want to hear a raving lunatic talk about conspiracy theories and other such nonsense but if I limit his speech than I limit speech that is worth listening to. I think you have to love your freedom of speech and be intelligent enough to take what is good and let the rest fall on deaf ears.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, I do. But, I also think that many of the freedoms provided under the Amendments are threadbare from misuse and misinterpretation, and from being dragged through the U.S. court system as a means of monetary gain.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    perhaps you at the instant are not analyzing the assumption properly. there is not any "absolute freedom of speech". you won't be able to incite a rebel, you won't be able to dedicate libel, that form of ingredient, so it quite is no longer absolute. And on an identical time as human beings have freedom of speech, there is not any requirement that folk could pay attention. without understanding the main factors, it quite is complicated to comprehend what you assert. perhaps human beings merely are not fascinated in what you could say, without attention of your historic past.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It sure is. Ignorance is bliss and what some people have to say is fu-c*** up and we don't want to hear it. All the racist babble... sexual preference... who cares? Keep it to yourself.

    I get Violation Notices on here for nothing and the resident racists have the freedom to use slurs and connotations all over the place. What the f***?

    Some people need to keep their thoughts to themselves. ( Me too on occasion)

  • Scotty
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    It's great that we live in a country in which we can say what we want and not get our heads cut off or something strange.

    But I do believe some people definitely abuse it.

  • 1 decade ago

    yes...cause then they have sub-groups of freedom of speech. What they consider in the boundaries of freedom of speech and what is borderline and what is not, to the point where almost anything can be said or till nothing can be said at all!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes! I mean we can have freedom of speech to an extent but if we go too far it can be a terrible offense to the law, and in other ways also.

  • 1 decade ago

    I actually think people who test the waters with freedom of speech are abused...

  • 1 decade ago

    I would rather err on the side of allowing more freee speech than restricting it. We all forget that words only hurt if you let them hurt you.

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