Say What You Want To Say!
Say What You Want To Say!
A Look Into the Eight Values of Free Expression
The eight values of free expression are...
1. Marketplace of Ideas
When you allow people to freely share both the truth and misinformations/falsehoods, the truth will always find its way to the surface. By allowing falsehoods the truth will inevitably be made stronger.
2. Participation in Self-Government
Those who participate in elections should be able to be informed about the candidates. The people should be able to acquire information during elections in order to make educated decisions.
3. Stable Change
Allowing outcast societies and citizens to speak freely and vent out their aggravations will help keep violence away. Outcasts will not feel the need to resort to violence to get their points across when they know that they may freely express how they feel. This also allows for the government to stay aware of the potential outcast threats.
4. Individual Self-Fulfillment
When people are allowed to speak freely they fill that they get to define themselves and create their own self-identity.
5. Check on Governmental Power
Freedom of speech and press allows the people to be able to keep a check on the government. We as people can freely challenge and raise suspicions about government activity.
6. Promote Tolerance
The freedom to say hateful and mean things allows others to be able to learn how to tolerate other beliefs. This also allows for those that share hate speech to learn through corrections by the public why what they are saying is hateful.
7. Promote Innovation
When people can speak freely they can sometimes feel enlightened and energized and they create new ideas that launch society forward.
8. Protect Dissent
No matter how popular your culture is, we all have the same right to disagree with the government and publicly share our opinions.
Which One Feels Most Important?
Protect Dissent
It is very important for everyone to feel as if their voice weighs the same as every other voice out there. Whether you are a minority or not we all have the same right and the weight of opinion on the government. It's important to hear from all people and listen to them all the same because everyone will provide a different point of view. The citizens of the United States are made up of so many cultures and backgrounds that it is important to encourage them all to use their voices.
Which One Feels The Most Personal To Me?
Promote Tolerance
As a college student, I find myself in an environment where I hear many different opinions on a wide range of topics on a daily. Promoting tolerance is more personal to me because that is something that I and all of my peers are currently learning to do. By hearing so many different opinions I am learning that it is ok to disagree with others and that they have the same right to say what they want to say as I do. Learning to be tolerant of other ideals is an important skill and I think that many people develop that skill during their time at college. I am thankful that I go to a school where it is encouraged that I and my peers speak their minds and learn to tolerate new ideals. I feel as if this is very important in this day and age due to new controversies and debates popping up in our current day events.
Which One Do You See In Action Today?
Check On Governmental Power
With new platforms like Tik Tok emerging and some older known platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, we are beginning to see an age where people are communicating and sharing opinions more than they ever were before. With easier access to massive communication, people are shying away less and less when it comes to calling out the government. Every day when I go onto social media it takes me about five minutes to discover a post of someone checking the government. This is fantastic because it allows people to be educated and aware of what going on with the government and it also shows the government that nothing goes unwatched by the public.
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