Okay, speech, free, or right

Going sometime back, the Buddha, discussed the issue of speech, in relation to

suffering:

Now, we of course talk about free speech, which obviously is a very interesting

topic, but speech must exist in the same context as action, because speech can

be harmful, and therefore the Buddha introduced, about 2500 years ago, the

concept of right speech, meaning in certain ways, speech that is not harmful.

So the idea in free speech is to have meaningful dialogues and conversations that

benefit everybody. This may be hard or it maybe easy.

Not so long ago, our media was mainly highly local, which means that the people

who were creating the media, were in close proximity to the people consuming

the media. This, of course, created a somewhat different environment for communication.

However, now we have to reconsider what is " local ", because, media over the

years has become more highly diffuse, meaning that data sources and sinks are

all over the place, and our data or information is less like the local model,

we did have not to long ago, which was also the same model that existed for

sometime before that.

So in conclusion, we always must way speech in the context of both

free, but also , right.

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