The New Freedom

that people copy and re-post photos on their individual sites, but they decline and cannot be found on Facebook. Hence, people have a right to delete their pictures that were posted by someone else. The third category increases many concerns about freedom of speech.…

jobs, the voice of the people, and the freedom we are given. We have a right to these opportunities. These opportunities are what make so many…

personal beliefs weren’t always viewed in a positive light. This led to much conflict that plagued many regions around the world and affected their advancement. One of the primary motivations for moving to America was the hope of finding religious freedom. Numerous people were fed up with being mistreated in their homelands and being prosecuted for having different beliefs. America offered an escape from the constant judgment they faced. Each country and even regions within those countries…

In Roosevelt’s State of the Union Address (“The Four Freedoms”), the speaker, an American political leader and statesman who served as the thirty-second President of the United States, discusses four underlying freedoms that all people have the right to enjoy. Roosevelt delivered his powerful speech eleven months before the United States declared war on Japan in 1941. His State of the Union speech primarily dealt with the national security of America and the concerning threat to other republics…

have been protesting during the national anthem, this, in turn, is causing an uprising about when should people be allowed to protest. People should be able to protest whenever they feel like because that is part of their constitutional right to freedom of speech. Toni Smith author of “A Leader is More Than a Messenger” writes about how everything is advertised during major events. She goes on to explain how sports are filled with political messages even though they relate nothing to the…

influence of the media and propaganda is intrinsic to political communication. The method of transmitting information between the government and the public is key in both the classification of governments and our understanding of their differences. The freedom of media between authoritarian regimes and liberal democracies is markedly different, in both the control that the government exerts over what is said and displayed in the media. While it is clear that propaganda does have a place even in…

being used that should be. These documents are written from presidents, freed slaves, civil war heroes, and other famous people in history. All of these Essential American Documents have helped our nation. America, our nation, which was built upon freedom, has been through almost everything imaginable throughout our two hundred and…

that oppose their power. A new crisis with censorship is “hate speech,” which is whenever “anyone alleges that the expressions of others are insulting, offensive, or degrading, presumably those others could assert that the former's allegations are insulting, offensive, or degrading to them” (Laursen). People are calling for censorship of the words that they find inappropriate and classify it as hate just so it looks like it isn’t undermining freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is to allow…

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter”- George Washington, these words discoursed are just as valid today as when they were first spoken. In present time censorship obstructs our freedom of speech and disrupts our ability to create our own distinct voice. Currently the exact meaning indicates that censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any part of any book, film, and news that is considered obscene, politically…

's privacy and oppresses people with different ideas and opinions. Censorship is against the very First Ammendment, one of the most important aspects of the Constitution, the right of free speech. According to News Blaze, “...freedom of expression is directly correlated with freedom of speech, which is granted to us by the provisions of the First Amendment to the Constitution.” (Danz, Jr.). An individual’s right to express…