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What is meant by freedom of expression? What in your view would be a reasonable restriction on this freedom? Give examples


One of the issues that is considered to belong to the minimum area of non–interference is the freedom of expression.

(i)Freedom of expression is a fundamental value and for that society must be willing to bear some inconvenience to protect it from people who want to restrict it. 

(ii)Reasonable restrictions on freedom of expression : Freedom of expression is a fundemental value and for that society must be willing to bear some inconvenience to protect it from the people who want to restrict it.

(iii)At various times there have been demands to ban books, plays, films, or academic articles in research journals.

(iv)Let us think about this demand to ban books in the light of our discussion so far which sees freedom as ‘The making of choices,” Where is a distinction made between negative and positive liberty, where we recognise the need for justifiable constraints but there have to be supported by people procedures and important moral arguments.

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