Free Speech. Top Story - January 2025.
When they say that nothing is free, they obviously mean the following: nothing except for free speech, an indisputable privilege of a democratic community that we’ve been lucky to build over the centuries of grueling toil. It’s just that some things are implied but not spoken out loud. So, free speech is free by definition. I — a well-educated young man, brought up with a sharp sense of justice, distaste for rudeness, and a certain feeling of responsibility for what we, human beings, so to speak supreme representatives of the Animal kingdom, are to leave behind us on this planet — I well knew this unspoken rule, this recognized by all right to speak up and to be heard. Imagine my surprise, my indignation, when I learned first-hand that when they say nothing is free, this is exactly what they mean, and there is no exception from this rule, and there are no hidden, implicit implications; sorry for this tautology.
