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How “Free” is Free Speech?
As an official citizen of the United States of America, we learn and are given this concept of “free speech”. Guaranteed to us by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we are supposedly encouraged to be limitless in our thoughts, ideas and both spoken and written word. But of course, common sense tells us there’s a limit to this, that just because the government “says” something doesn’t mean it’s true, and attached to free speech, there’s always that little asterisk next to it with the rules and limitations in size 4 font down at the bottom of the page.
Everyone knows those seven dirty words you aren’t allowed to say on the air, as George Carlin made famous in his 1972 monologue. Over thirty years later, and it seems as if an updated monologue should be written, and instead of the “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television”, it should be titled something like, “The Five Hundred Words You Can Never Say On Television”. Take note though, it’s not just selective words that is censored through media, television and radio, it’s also content, news, stories. Who’s to say that what news stories are being
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