Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Freedom of speech

What is freedom of speech? Why we have freedom of speech? Does freedom of speech has its extent? Can we criticize everything? Can we criticize the royal family? Can we express the religion? Is it guilty if we criticize someone or something as the spoken word looking down it? Did Thai citizen have freedom of speech?
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Freedom of speech is rights to speak , criticize, express of everything. In the truth there are something that can not express or criticize because it is guilty. For example you can not criticize the other by look down upon them because this can be affect to them and it was guilty in case of tort the civil rights.
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In my opinion I agree to the rule that prohibit about criticize the religion in the wrong way. I think it is up to personal belief. I thought it is good that freedom of speech has limited. If it has none of extent, I believed it will cause of many problem. If it was abused, it can make war between religion, between countries, between human believed or between human race.
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Why we have freedom of speech? Is it necessary for us? In my point of view I thought that we have freedom of speech because of Thailand is not a communist country but Thailand is a democracy country. People who lived in communist country will have only a little of rights, they did not have freedom of press so that mean they can not received all of information and they have no rights to criticize many things. All they can do is up to the government of that country that it is different from democracy countries. It is also different from Thailand. Thailand is a democracy country so Thai citizen has freedom of speech. We have freedom of expression that mean everyone can express their ideas, their opinion without government intervention liked the UN’s Human Right, Article 19. However there is something we can not criticize or express everything but we can criticize or express things as long as that spoken word are not looking down someone or something.
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In summary I thought freedom of speech has both advantage and disadvantage. If we use it in right way, it will make us benefits and advantage but if it is abuse, it will become a sword that against us.

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