The value that I think resonates with me the most is Individual Self-Fulfillment. This one is about how "Free speech enables individuals to express themselves and thereby create their own identity — and, in the process perhaps, find kindred spirits. Freedom of speech thus becomes an aspect of human dignity, human agency and autonomy". This means that people are allowed to freely express their ideas and feelings without consequences most of the time. This is something that I think is very important because without being able to speak feely people would have to hold there feelings in and not be able to share with the public and media how they feel. This has also become a very big topic ion the news as conversation about politics has risen along with more people being involved on social media and news outlets speaking out. This is also important to me because I like to share how I feel and be able to freely post and repost what I agree and or disagree with.
I also rely on social media and different news outlets like Fox News to find out what is going on involving politics. Without having freedom of speech it may affect news outlets and especially different social media platforms, because they will be unsure of what they can say and post without having legal issues in the future. If people did not have freedom of speech I fear that we would not be as well informed as we are today since the government could control what can and cannot be said. While we do have certain laws in place to keep people from saying certain things like defamation, we can still receive accurate information. One example of this is when someone posts something defaming someones character it is considered defamation, even though they are using their right of freedom of speech they are not necessarily posting something that is true and it is also hurting someone else in the process.
Another theory that resonates with me and is similar to the one above is "Promote Innovation". This is about "A community in which free speech is valued and protected is likely to be a more energized, creative, interesting society as its citizens actively fulfill themselves in many diverse and interesting ways". This mean that if people can freely express their ideas then they have more of an opportunity to create new thing and come up with more ideas. I think this is important because we then have more of an opportunity to create new products and improve on old whens when people can bounce ideas off of one another. If we were not able to do this then we may not have been as innovative as we are today. It would also give other countries the ability to have more technological advantages, which could set us back and put us in a lower position than we are today. We would also have to rely on other countries more than we already do to get different goods making it harder for us to trade.
