Freedom of Speech
What is freedom of speech? In the United States Constitution under the First Amendment:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. What does this mean to you as a blogger?
In my opinion, freedom of speech has always been very important because people have to be able to say or write whatever they want without getting harsh consequences. There are other parts to this first amendment that make it very important, too. This amendment also states that there has to be freedom of religion, freedom of speech and press, freedom to assemble peacefully and to ask Government to change laws. These other rights are very important too because people cannot be stopped to worship whatever they want and to express their feelings and opinions. The part where the amendment says that there is freedom of speech and press applies to me as a blogger because when writing blogs, we have the right to give our opinions and talk about them freely. I think that is one of the major reasons why we blog, to express ourselves however we want as long as we don’t disrespect others. If we didn’t have the freedom to right about whatever we wanted, we wouldn’t be able to express ourselves. Expressing what we think and like is very important in someone’s life because we need to let everything out. Perhaps everyone does express theirselves in some other way but the purpose of writing is trying to express yourself in a way that you couldn’t do with a person. Maybe with a topic like soccer, freedom of speech perhaps is not very important but when giving opinions about anything( soccer players, rules, etc.) it is very important not to have many bonds.
