Freedom of Speech. What we had been taught in the school from the childhood days. I never believed I had it. I was not allowed to talk against anyone in the school. There it goes away, right at the beginning.
At school, at home, in public, you were not supposed to speak what your mind asks you to. I am sad that, this is even true in the field of art and creativity as well. Weather it may be the recent attack on a comedian who allegedly mocked a particular caste, or something similar to those happened in the past in the state of Andhra Pradesh (united). But the thing is, it is not just in AP or Telangana per-se. One of the movies directed by Kamal Hasan had to go through lot of things just to get released. The new movie PK is facing lot of issues because of the religious aspects that it questions.
It just does not stop here. Hollywood makes a movie with a plot that deals with the assassination of the leader of another country. That is it. The computer network of the company which made the film, gets hacked.
You talk or speak against a political party, you are beaten up to death. I just think that, there is no freedom of speech ever. Not even on the Facebook for that matter. Can you remember at least one instance where you expressed your feelings about someone, that you are friends with directly by name? You would not even dare to un-friend that person, even if you do not like him/her. That is where we are and we would continue to be.
It seems only like we have the right to suppress the "freedom of speech".
At school, at home, in public, you were not supposed to speak what your mind asks you to. I am sad that, this is even true in the field of art and creativity as well. Weather it may be the recent attack on a comedian who allegedly mocked a particular caste, or something similar to those happened in the past in the state of Andhra Pradesh (united). But the thing is, it is not just in AP or Telangana per-se. One of the movies directed by Kamal Hasan had to go through lot of things just to get released. The new movie PK is facing lot of issues because of the religious aspects that it questions.
It just does not stop here. Hollywood makes a movie with a plot that deals with the assassination of the leader of another country. That is it. The computer network of the company which made the film, gets hacked.
You talk or speak against a political party, you are beaten up to death. I just think that, there is no freedom of speech ever. Not even on the Facebook for that matter. Can you remember at least one instance where you expressed your feelings about someone, that you are friends with directly by name? You would not even dare to un-friend that person, even if you do not like him/her. That is where we are and we would continue to be.
It seems only like we have the right to suppress the "freedom of speech".
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