Eight Values of Free Expression

When you think of the eight values of free expression what do you think about? I personally think about two things; Check on Governmental Power and Marketplace of Ideas.

I think that these two interjoin together in a way that benefits both them together, when we think about a marketplace of ideas also known as discovery of truth we think of a table where you should talk openly to a vast amount of people. I think that this should also shine light on the fact that when we are talking at this "table" we shouldn't just speak about things that we personally like, I think that we should talk about everything and should get all the ideas out on the table; this way we can approve and disprove which idea we agree on. 

A big thing we shouldn't allow whilst doing a market place of idea's is letting the government decide what choices we should make, when that happens it's called a market failure. For example right now, places in the European Union are having a market failure because the government is not letting all the ideas be placed on the table instead they're only letting what they want be spoken about. In Britain  right now they just recently added a law called the digital service act, summarized nicely it's basically a law that takes away free speech. Daily they're putting around 30 people to jail for either criticizing or saying things that the government doesn't agree with. 

The other place that's going through a market failure is the Denmark, right now they've imposed a new law called,  Chat control hinges, which basically gives them permission to decide whether or not the message you're trying to send should be sent or not. Not only is this blatant censorship but it's also a privacy breach. As clarified by Cyber Insider,  “All known algorithms are fundamentally susceptible to evasion.” In my opinion this has and will cause major backlash from the people who live in these areas. 

A market place of ideas in a good light is people who do open debates is Ben Shapiro.
He, like Charlie Kirk, gave people a platform that they can stand up in front of both a crowd of people and a crowd at home watching and speak what they believe in or wish to debate about. He is showing the people that no idea, even if in his eyes is fundamentally wrong or if it's very controversial  He is openly and showing proof that he wants to make sure that everyone gets to use their freedom of speech on his debate and he doesn't silence them. This is helping expand the view points of people who might not believe in what he says because a open debate is always better than just a person speaking without letting the other side speak their views.

How Marketplace of Ideas and Checks on Governmental power tie together in my mind is that while people are having debates it's reinforcing the pillars that not everything is just a one sided screaming contest; When you sit down and talk things out in a professional style it makes it a more compelling argument and makes your points more valid. It also empowers people who feel like something is either wrong or out of place to have a platform in which they can talk about it and bring public recognition to it. I think that checks on governmental powers is a key way that helps a marketplace of ideas come and show the truth even easier after all, the best way to get public knowledge on something is a live debate.

AI disclosure: I used Microsoft copilot only to help me think of idea's for the prompt and in no way did I use Ai to draft or help me write this blog post.