How to Use free speech in a Sentence

free speech

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  • No one spends $44 billion to profess their love for free speech.
    — Bybradley Tusk, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • One of its main goals, Chandler Franklin says, is to promote free speech and civic dialogue.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Jones, who lives and works in Austin, Texas, has bashed the trial as unfair and an assault on free speech rights.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Musk’s effort to make Twitter a free speech sounding board has turned out to be highly controversial.
    — Arthur Herman, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The suspension led to an outcry with users accusing the billionaire of impeding free speech and being thin-skinned.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Bannon’s case was put on hold and a judge later tossed the Wells case on the argument that the warning was a decision based on artistic free speech.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Musk, who describes himself as a free speech absolutist, closed the deal on the platform on Thursday, Oct. 27.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Not because of his right to free speech—which exists to protect against government interference—but because of how Musk chooses to operate his platform.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Twitter feed for any indication of whether the free speech absolutist could be trusted to do things like effectively combat disinformation spread after taking over the site.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The complaint argued that the state's electioneering laws unconstitutionally chilled her right to free speech and that enforcement was inconsistent.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Here’s how the Supreme Court got the big free speech stuff right.
    — Fox News, 8 July 2024
  • The First Amendment guarantees us the right to free speech.
    — WSJ, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Under the guise of counter-speech being free speech, the chorus rolled on.
    — Justin Vallejo, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Stanford has free speech zones where protests can take place.
    — Jeffrey Koseff, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • When the very logic of speech must shift in order for people to be heard, is that still free speech?
    — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Those are the ones whose free speech rights would be violated by a ban.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The court ruled 6-3 that free speech rights protected the designer.
    — oregonlive, 17 July 2023
  • Chaplin might have been made a symbol of the suppression of the right to free speech and dissent in the McCarthy era.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But throwing a life vest to Twitter won’t stop free speech from drowning.
    — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Musk’s decisions as being out of step with his vow to make Twitter a haven of free speech.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • On the right, the idea that DEI stands in the way of free speech, and imposes progressive groupthink, has become a mantra.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2024
  • At the heart of these conflicts is a debate over free speech and how far schools should go in cutting ties with Israel.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The petition is supportive of free speech and gun rights.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The crackdown on vendors who use free speech claims to skirt city rules is less clear-cut, officials said.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Short of giving up on free speech, there’s only one way to lower the price of dissent: increase the supply.
    — Time, 12 July 2023
  • The Supreme Court has now said states cannot, as forcing artists to create such speech would violate their free speech rights.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 June 2023
  • But other forms of free speech have abounded under Musk.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The move became a catalyst for Uncle Luke’s fight for free speech that went all the way up to the Supreme Court and laid the groundwork for today’s hip-hop.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Lawmakers say the goal is to protect children, but tech companies say the bills are a threat to free speech.
    — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 9 May 2024
  • Signatories pledge to support the First Amendment, which gurantees free speech, and the Second Amendment, which covers gun rights.
    — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024

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