freedom of speech

noun phrase

: the legal right to express one's opinions freely

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Kimmel was reinstated nearly a week later, amid a nationwide debate about freedom of speech. Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Dec. 2025 Meanwhile, both the Ten Commandments law and Senate Bill 12, which bans LGBTQ+ clubs in schools, are facing legal challenges concerning freedom of speech within educational institutions. Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025 Far less than half think that freedom of speech (31 percent), the press (34 percent), and assembly (16 percent) are guaranteed. Salma Al-Shami, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2025 However, the ban has already sparked some backlash from users and opposition parties, who described it as an infringement on freedom of speech. John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for freedom of speech

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Legal Definition

freedom of speech

: the right to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content and subject only to reasonable limitations (as the power of the government to avoid a clear and present danger) especially as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution see also free speech compare censorship, prior restraint
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