{"id":12372,"date":"2017-10-27T19:11:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T23:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=12372"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:42:31","slug":"first-amendment-freedom-speech-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/first-amendment-freedom-speech-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Of Speech For Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first amendment of the United States Constitution gives citizens protection to exercise freedom of religion and expression without \u00a0government interference. Today, it is strongly questioned and criticized as people try to define who can have a say and who cannot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One current incident touching on this controversy was on Sept. 27. The executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">American Civil Liberties Union<\/span><\/strong><\/a> of Virginia <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claire Guthrie Gasta\u00f1aga<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was speaking at the College of William &amp; Mary about the first amendment and rights at demonstrations when she was shutdown by protesters. This attitude took away her right of freedom of speech, as well as the rights of whoever wanted to listen to what she had to say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other discussions about freedom of speech include the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville that produced three deaths, President Donald J.Trump\u2019s tweets and National Football League players protesting during the national anthem. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Charlottesville is an extreme and delicate case, since three people ended up dying and it was a protest organized by neo-Nazis (that support movements such as Nazism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and extremist nationalism), people still had the right to protest, according to the first amendment, even though their views do not represent most of the population\u2019s opinions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should certain people be limited to have a right to voice their opinion in specific topics? A poll from 2015 made by the Pew Research Center showed that 40% of millennials think it is necessary to censor certain types of offensive speech. However, when we take away a person\u2019s right to express their opinions and ideas, it\u2019s like we\u2019re controlling how people should act, think and interact. It makes us more closed minded. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/search\/?q=%22Donald%20J.%20Trump%22&amp;_siq_page=1&amp;_siq_sort=relevance\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Donald J. Trump<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and his love for tweeting random words also fall under this category. But when he demands private companies fire certain players that are bending their knees, the law 18 United States Code 227 is being infringed. The regulation stands for \u201cwrongfully influencing a private entity\u2019s employment decisions by a Member of Congress or an officer or employee of the legislative or executive branch,\u201d but it would only be applied to the president if certain players were to actually get fired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College campuses are spaces that students use to share their opinions and ideas. When we limit who should come and who should not come to speak in our campuses, we are also showing students with different points of views that their values and ideas have no place among us. When students protest controversial speakers, free speech is in danger of censorship only because of different points of views.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first amendment of the United States Constitution gives citizens protection to exercise freedom of religion and expression without \u00a0government interference. 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