Speech

Starting about ten or fifteen years ago, certain people in government and others in the news business came to the conclusion, that the average American could no longer determine what is their truth because of misinformation. Because of the vast amount of information available to the citizenry, people would be overwhelmed and easily misguided to believing things that according to government were not true. Then pressure was put on social media to begin censoring and removing what was called misinformation or disinformation. This was a direct attack on the first amendment. Many countries have free speech in their constitutions but most have exceptions for hate speech which means they don’t have free speech. While many countries in Europe and elsewhere criminalize hate speech, harassment, or defamatory language, the U.S. protects most speech, even if it is considered offensive or hateful.