Whatever happened to freedom of speech?

Your freedom of speech is to speak without the government interfering. No one else has to listen to you.

The Information Age happened to it; we've become more aware of just how little talking actually amounts to.

Supposedly, the rights to free speech and freedom of the press would free us; any one person could freely say 'the king has nothing on' and the rest would join in and that be the end of that.

What the technological connections have taught us is that each of our voices is just one tiny squeak until it joins a group big enough to matter.

And since so many of the groups are led by the meanest, most ambitious and least scrupulous among them, those and submission are the requirements for membership.

Your speech starts to matter when you're on board with the haters the rest allow power because they don't want to spend their lives fighting them.

Freedom of speech hasn't changed the nature of power a bit.

Well, you always have the freedom to say what you want (except "fire in the theater" when there is no fire cases). It could be that others have the freedom to disagree or ignore what you say. Freedom of speech works both ways: If the majority disagrees, then unfortunately the majority disagrees, and the minority isn't heard. It sucks, I know.

The progressives in America only believe in freedom of speech for themselves and the media is made up of mostly progressives.

You are mistaken about the majority though. Most Americans are Conservative but you don't hear that from the media.

We still have freedom of speech but for how long?

2012 can not get here soon enough for most of us!

Nothing, and YOU are the proof.

The ironic thing about this question which is complaining about the loss of freedom of speech, is that you are actually using your freedom of speech to ask it.

If you didn't have freedom of speech, you wouldn't be able to ask this question in the first place.

See these thumbs up and thumbs down?

These are used by the tyranny of teenagers to define what is right and wrong. By serving facts that go against their general interests, you get a thumbs down.

If you do, this overly trusted bias machine will expel you from ever being right again.

Thanks, teenies.

Well, m'luv, you just asked the $64,000 question.

But sugar, freedom of speech still lives as long as anyone exercises it without fear of consequences. You still do, each and every single day, like House and Sheila and Ange and Jelloise and Mags and all your Yank friends do, what else do you need?

We'll make it. And no, we won't say what they want to hear, we'll say what we we want them to hear.

I don't about Australia, but in the US freedom of speech is continually getting taken away if you don't agree with the liberal elite and the Hollywood set.

Basically, you have every channels to present your opinions to government who normally has its web-site and accounts in facebook.

However,

James 3:5-6

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

What country do you live in?

Where I live, you can have, and express, any opinion you like. You can't demand that others to broadcast it for you though; they have their own free speech rights.