What is "freedom of speech", anyway? How would you define "freedom of expression"?

They are terrified of black/Asian riots which they are aware is very possible. So you cant say anything about anyone non-white,but they can.say anything about us. Its all race connected today. If you keep an open mind and your eyes open you can soon spot it.

Define Freedom Of Expression

I don't think we should ''draw the line'' at any point. Regardless of how offensive something may be.

I think true freedom has to mean that we allow certain things we're not comfortable with. I am opposed to obscenity laws, and opposed to any laws prohibiting any freedom of expression. Freedom of expression being any choices, words, or actions that don't violate the consent of other individuals.

As long as no one's tangible rights are effected. Freedom must be allowed. The alternative is a slippery slope, and not something I would welcome.

All depends if that freedom of speech is inciting hatred or just a misguided fool out to get attention. What gets my goat is typical on online sites where people shout foul when,say, a Muslim objects to being insulted yet shouts foul again when they feel they have been yet feel they've the right to throw insults themselves, it stinks of double standards. People have had the freedom to insult in this country since the kings could no longer throw us in the Tower.

Freedom of speech and freedom of expression, must surely come with responsibilities. It's why we have laws, which after all, are merely a set of rules by which any society that wishes to be deemed as civilised, operates. And these laws must be enforced. Regardless of any outcry. To do otherwise is to open the way to murder and war. That's how important rights 'with responsibilities' are.

'Freedom of speech' has never existed. Even before modern laws on libel, slander and discrimination, blasphemous and treasonable speech was outlawed.

Those examples are the other way round now, and that describes how law changes to adapt to society. Law exists to provide a cohesive structure through which a society acts and behaves. The notion of 'freedom of speech' is by definition anarchic, whereas 'freedom of expression' is directly linked to the rule of law, and is therefore 'judged by our peers' and the courts.

To be able to challenge the way society views the freedom of expression is of itself, that very freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo once said that "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedoms." Basically, he was stating that freedom of expression is the structure of all the other freedoms. It’s a very valuable freedom that lets you express your own thoughts and feelings and show your beliefs and ideas.

Freedom of expression is also showing your feelings without verbal use. The young man who showed a burning poppy on the internet was certainly foolish but his actions didn’t involve verbal or physical abuse so the fact he got arrested was shocking – it’s like the laws of a fundamentalist state. Freedom of expression is something the UK has always been proud of allowing.

Let’s remember it is perfectly legitimate to protest against the fact that our soldiers are still being sent to die in immoral wars for oil - young people are idealists. So all respect to the people who have suffered and died in wars, but society sometimes also needs a conscience about why we are sending so many in our armed forces to die.

People are always putting us Americans down, when we get upset over others burning our flag. I know that poppies mean so much to the people in the UK. They represent their heroes who've died fighting for the rights of your country. They've shed a lot of blood so you guys can have rights and live in peace. Poppies are sacred there.

In the US our flag stands for the US of A, It stands for freedom, and it represents our heroes, who've shed a lot of blood and died for our rights and freedom. It is sacred to many of us. That is why it hurts so much to see it burned. This is what many just don't get. So I understand how upset people get, in the UK when they see poppies burning. I am in the US and it upsets me... it hurts to see anyone burn our flag, and it hurts me to see anyone burn your poppies.

Freedom of expression, is the freedom to express speech, as long as it isn't threatening someone with ''bodily harm''. It worries me when people start wanting to lock others up, because they hurt our feelings. Look at the man who created the video ''Innocence of muslims''. Many right here in the US wanted to lock him up. The government ''actually'' finally found a reason to lock him up for a year. They say they put him in jail for probation violation... BUT many of us know he did not have to go to jail for that. There are many here who have committed ''violent'' crimes and are out on probation. They are not in jail. They look over petty probation violations... most of the time, but our government was hell bent on putting this man (who made the muslim video) away, and they did. They didn't have to... They ''chose'' to.

I think this is wrong. We may not like it when they burn our sacred things, but our heroes died for our rights to freedom of speech, and freedom to express that speech. If they are allowed to arrest someone for burning poppies... or making an Islam video... what's next? I'm speaking about the UK and the US.

i call a spade a spade, i don't to political correctness,ta