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Without freedom of speech you don't have democracy, or true freedom of association, etc. It's a critical foundational right on which other human rights are foun

• LeanderK 4y ago
  this is not how the german state (or german democracy?) is built. Freedom of speech has bounds here and this can be defended.
• ivan_gammel 4y ago
  It is not foundational, it is one of the many rights that our society recognizes. In Universal Declaration of Human Rights it’s Article 19, coming after 18 other articles. https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... In German constitution it is Article 5 and it is explicitly limited, considering the importance of the balance. https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/German_Federal_Republic_2012.pdf#page7 https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/German_Federa...
  • impossiblefork 4y ago
    It is absolutely foundational. You're talking about laws, but free speech isn't about laws, it's a notion of moral philosophy. The sense in which it is foundational is as follows: you cannot have democracy without freedom of speech, because without it there is no free formation of opinions. You can't freedom of association or freedom of assembly without freedom of speech. These latter are interconnected, because an aspect of freedom of assembly is to assemble to hold, for example, political meetings.