Fidel Castro had to sit there while he was given a speech on democracy, something the Cuban people have not been able to hear for 43 years.
Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.
Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes in the court of public opinion.
You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
