The Problem of Free Speech

In 2004 , an Israeli ambassador to Sweden destroyed an artwork that depicted a Palestinian terrorist as a hero, but then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon praised the act.

Frida Ghitis: Are there limits to free speech, apart from immediate incitement? She says even after our Republic was born, the First Amendment , with its guarantee of a free press, was not taken as supremely central.

Social media has given anonymous posters the ability to spread malicious invectives that could start wars against millions of people with just one click.

This is more power than any press had in the early days of our Republic .

The Founding Fathers gave us the First Amendment at a time when culture was more conservative and could police itself.

The internet allowed pro-Palestinian takeovers on American universities to be facilitated more easily.