IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH REALLY A FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION?

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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

-George Washington

George has said it all here, if there is no freedom of speech, then we are in darkness, dumb and may be used unnecessarily to any length.

Back to this week's topic edition which is tagged: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Over the years, the idea of freedom of speech has seemed to evolve. While people are free to speak their minds, they are also restricted to the kind of things they can say. What are your thoughts on this? Especially how it affects us Presently?

In the part of country where I am, I do ask myself the question is there a freedom of speech?
If I am to put an answer to this, particularly in my country I don't think we have 60% freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech generally is an act of expressing one's opinion or saying whatever he or she feels like without legal restrain or penalization. But I think it a different case in my country.

There was this day during junior secondary school my school management decided to take the school prefects on a short trip to the nearest king's palace of which i was privileged to be part of.we the prefects and some of the senior school staffs boarded the school bus and was heading to the kings palace.
On our way there we where stopped by the uniform men(police). We where stopped and the driver and school staff are being asked some questions, well, my thought was the police are doing their job not until they asked us to park and come down from the vehicle. That was when I got to realize that the police where asking for some illegal fee of which the Driver and the school staffs where against. And that was the reason they asked us to park and get down. We all got down from the vehicle yet Mr Dele, one of the school senior staff was still trying to make it right with the police , claiming his right and also expressing his Freedom of speech not until one of the police officer pulled out his gun saying he will gun down Mr dele if he says anything again.

I was shocked and afraid seeing an officer trying to hurt a civilian all because he was expressing his freedom of speech. Long story short we where there at the stop point for 30 minutes until a senior police officer came and asked us to continue our journey with sincere apology.

Well, freedom of speech is a nice approach that need to be well considered without being restrained as supposed, we also should not forget false statement about one another which fall under libel and slander. For further explanation libel is a written false statement while slander is an oral false statement.
No matter how we go about our freedom of speech, we should endeavor not to dwell under libel and slander because there is a great punishment of such act in the constitution.

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There isn't 100% freedom of speech in my county although people use social media platforms to air their opinion on certain matters and even at that, it's like pouring water into a basket because nothing will change.

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That is just the way it is in this country, they might preach freedom of speech, but the moment you say something they don't like, they will come after you hard. Such is life.

P.S: You are not supposed to use the topic description in your post. This is the final warning, and if it happens again, the post won't be supported.

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These police are our major issue.

even after the endsars protest and all that went down, we are back to square 1 like it never happened

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If not for the Police not carrying out their duty well, they were supposed to check well cause students life's are involved due to the happenings in the country.
But 30mins is just too much.

Thanks for sharing

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If it was the check alone, that would have been nice. But what is the illegal fee all about and still detaining all because of the fee..

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wow! that must have been a shock to experience such a thing!

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For real.. It took me days to process it

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Apart from the restriction we get from the government, we still experience this is our diffrrent social levels , it is well oo

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Some peeps have misused freedom to become an opportunity to speak irrationally nkt caring the outcome

Thanks for sharing

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Freedom of speech is man's right but always remember that you are liable for what you say. While it may be your right to say what you wish where you wish, the laws do not save you if that right violates the right of another.

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