Similar to free markets, freedom of speech is an idealism concept completely detached from reality. The concept posits that people are free to say whatever they want. At a basic level, such as yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater, this has never existed. Throughout all of human history, limits have existed on publicly acceptable speech. Throughout much of the feudal era, denouncing monarchy and the divine right of kings was an illegal act subject to severe punishment, even death. These feudal laws still have remnants in England, Tailand and other parts of the world. So too, such laws existed in slave societies and exist today in capitalist and socialist countries.
In capitalist societies
Police in the United States frequently raid and destroy press companies and reporters for going against the grain of the statesian MICIMATT system.[1][2]
In socialist societies
References
- ↑ “The raid is one of several recent cases of local authorities taking aggressive actions against news organizations — some of which are part of a dwindling cohort left in their area to hold governments to account. And it fits a pattern of pressure being applied to local newsrooms. One recent example is the 2019 police raid of the home of Bryan Carmody, a freelance journalist in San Francisco, who was reporting on the death of Jeff Adachi, a longtime public defender.”
Steven Lee Myers and Benjamin Mullin (2023-08-13). Raid of Small Kansas Newspaper Raises Free Press Concerns New York Times. [Raid of Small Kansas Newspaper Raises Free Press Concerns Archived] from the original. - ↑ B (2023-08-14). ""Exceedingly Rare"" Moon of Alabama.