free speech (uncountable)
- The right to express an opinion in public without being restrained or censored.
- Synonym: freedom of speech
- Coordinate term: compelled speech
2003, Mike Godwin, Cyber Rights, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 2:The term free speech, which appears in this book's subtitle as well as in its text, is used more or less interchangeably with freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression to refer to all of the expressive rights guaranteed by the forty-five words of the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. courts.
- An expression that is or should be allowed in some moral or legal context.
1953, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings, page 3631:Section 8 (c) of the act has been erroneously referred to since its passage as a free-speech provision. Actually this section permits the employer to intimidate and coerce employees in the exercise of their rights guaranteed by the act. It is not a question of free speech at all. Giving the antiunion employer an unbridled right to condemn and deride the basic rights of employees to self-organization and collective bargaining is not free speech but a license to defeat the exercise of these fundamental rights.
2007, Wells Earl Draughon, While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America from Within, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 116:Saying certain things or posting fliers or writing in student or independent newspapers is not free speech but instead is sexual harassment or racial harassment.
2017, Fernne Brennan, Race Rights Reparations: Institutional Racism and The Law, Routledge, →ISBN:I would argue that we must be concerned with free speech but that cyber racism is not free speech, it is racist speech that provides an opportunity to devalue part of humankind ...
right to express an opinion in public
- Albanian: liri e të shprehurit f
- Arabic: حُرِّيَّة اَلتَّعْبِير f (ḥurriyyat at-taʕbīr)
- Armenian: խոսքի ազատություն (hy) (xoskʻi azatutʻyun)
- Belarusian: свабо́да сло́ва f (svabóda slóva)
- Bulgarian: свобода на слово f (svoboda na slovo)
- Catalan: llibertat d'expressió f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 言論自由/言论自由 (zh) (yánlùnzìyóu)
- Czech: svoboda slova f, svoboda projevu (cs) f, svoboda vyjadřování f
- Danish: ytringsfrihed (da)
- Dutch: vrijheid van meningsuiting (nl) f, vrije meningsuiting f
- Esperanto: parollibereco
- Estonian: sõnavabadus (et)
- Finnish: sananvapaus (fi)
- French: liberté d’expression (fr) f
- Galician: liberdade de expresión f
- Georgian: სიტყვის თავისუფლება (siṭq̇vis tavisupleba), აზრის თავისუფლება (azris tavisupleba), გამოხატვის თავისუფლება (gamoxaṭvis tavisupleba)
- German: freie Meinungsäußerung f, Redefreiheit (de) f
- Greek: ελευθερία έκφρασης f (elefthería ékfrasis)
- Ancient: πᾰρρησῐ́ᾱ f (parrhēsíā), ἰσηγορία f (isēgoría), ἐλευθεροστομία (eleutherostomía)
- Hebrew: חופש הביטוי (he)
- Hindi: अभिव्यक्ति की स्वतंत्रता (abhivyakti kī svatantratā)
- Hungarian: szólásszabadság (hu)
- Icelandic: málfrelsi (is) n
- Interlingua: libertate de parola, libertate de expression
- Italian: libertà di parola f
- Japanese: 言論の自由 (ja) (げんろんのじゆう, genron-no jiyū)
- Khmer: សេរីភាពបញ្ចេញមតិ (seerəyphiəp bɑñcəñ mĕəʼteʼ)
- Korean: 표현의 자유 (pyohyeonui jayu)
- Latvian: vārda brīvība f
- Lithuanian: žodžio laisvė f
- Macedonian: слобода на говор f (sloboda na govor)
- Maori: manawhiri kōrero
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ytringsfrihet (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: ytringsfridom m
- Persian: آزادی بیان (âzâdi-ye bayân)
- Polish: wolność słowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: liberdade de expressão (pt) f
- Romanian: libertatea cuvântului (ro) f
- Russian: свобо́да сло́ва (ru) f (svobóda slóva)
- Scottish Gaelic: saorsa cainnte f
- Serbo-Croatian: слобода говора f, sloboda govora f
- Slovak: sloboda slova f
- Slovene: svoboda govora f
- Spanish: libertad de expresión (es) f, libertad de palabra f
- Swahili: uhuru wa maoni
- Swedish: yttrandefrihet (sv)
- Thai: เสรีภาพในการพูด (săyree pâap nai gaan pôot)
- Turkish: ifade özgürlüğü
- Ukrainian: свобо́да сло́ва f (svobóda slóva)
- Urdu: آزادی گفتار
- Vietnamese: tự do ngôn luận
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