Lack Of Freedom Of Speech In The United States

Freedom of speech is being talked about often recently, but it is becoming limited more and more before our eyes. Some people think this is a good idea, others are not thinking it is a wise choice. There are two sides for everything and each side has its own evidence. It is starting to become an issue that needs to be addressed. A college student named, Robert Van Tuinen, was stopped in his tracks when he was passing out books of the US Constitution. The college student asked about his freedom to speech and the officer replied saying, “Do you know the rules to the first amendment here?” The college student was puzzled because he had no idea the first amendment was able to be limited. This is unconstitutional.
The people who is fond of our US constitution and the first amendment in the Bill of Rights says that freedom of speech if fundamental for our country. Loretta Preska, district judge of United States, says in her Touro Law Review, that simply nothing is advanced when we destroy the channels of open and free communication.(Preska) So basically what this is saying is that it is a problem for some people to abuse the power of constitutionally
Going into depth, freedom of speech is defined as the free flow of ideas, information, and opinions in our society. Look, being offended by the things that are being said is actually a very good and natural thing. It shows compassion and personal beliefs that people have towards a certain subject that the speaker was talking about (Mandava). Having someone silenced simply because he or she said something someone else doesn’t like is not an effective response. Being able to say what the people want and to engage in further discussion on what they think and this is great for exchanging ideas as well as expanding minds. But, if this were to be limited then we would be living in a world with ignorant and arrogant hot heads. Who wants to live like