Eight Values of Free Speech

Discovery of Truth, Participation in Self Government, Stable Change, Individual Self Fulfillment, Check on Governmental Power, Promote Tolerance, Promote Innovation, and Protect Dissent. These are all of the eight values of free expression. In my opinion I feel that the most valuable is the Protect Dissent. It is a complicated and tricky one to navigate, but it is a crucial one. 

Protect Dissent is the concept that you have to protect the items you don't like in order to protect the ones you do. This concept is almost always applied to speech. In todays America, we see this play out poorly very often. People find that their protected speech is important, but when disagreements arise and the opposing side is revealed, they do not feel it is crucial to protect their speech. Making sure to protect ALL forms of protected speech is crucial to the protection of freedoms in general. By discriminating against certain beliefs within protected speech creates divides and an easy way to further the break down of these rights.