The First Amendment's Terms of Service

Maybe my least surprising political position is advocacy for free and open discourse. Without free speech as a bedrock principle, democracy would mean little. If we can't, as private citizens, receive, judge, and debate ideas and information, the decisions we make on the basis of that information cannot themselves be considered "free" in any meaningful sense. If some central authority prevents me from discussing information-or even the possibility of the existence of information-that could change people's minds about that authority's course of action, all of our rights have been damaged.