Three speech just means the government can't arrest you for saying what you said.

But you can still face societal consequences for saying things that society doesn't like.

We don't have a problem with freedom of speech because I can still say whatever I want.

And this is American, that's why my family came here.

It seems like no one can have an opinion now without being picketed or blamed and

boycotted and I just think freedom of speech is going out the door.

America has a free speech problem.

That New York Times editorial headline recently reignited an ongoing debate over free speech

and how the term is applied.

New polling from Times' opinion in Sienna College shows that 84% of adults think it's

a very serious or somewhat serious problem that some Americans don't speak freely because

they fear retaliation or criticism.

The editorial board equates this anxiety with losing what it calls a quote, fundamental

right for citizens of a free country the right to speak our minds.

Critics were swift to blast this equivalency, including the editorial boards of the Philadelphia

Inquire and Portland Press Herald.

63% of Americans surveyed by the Night Foundation feel that free speech is one of their most

important rights, but not everyone agrees on what it really means, including some of you

as we heard at the start.

So does America have a free speech problem?

We'll get into that after the break.

And as having to watch what you say, really the same thing is stifling your right to speak

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