[psergeant]

> There are people who believe free speech is not the ultimate value

A right to free speech is a recent, American-centric invention, rather than a natural cornerstone of democracy, a fact that often seems lost on Americans.

[hodgesrm]

It seems many historians do not support your view. Notions of free speech date back to antiquity. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

[muthdra]

399BC Socrates speaks to jury at his trial: 'If you offered to let me off this time on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should say to you, "Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than you."'

[chrisco255]

The enumeration of free speech as a natural right in a Constitution is an American invention, but the idea itself is much older than that. However, the freedom of speech and press is as important to free nations as an immune system is to a body...neither will lost long without it.