Free speech is unpopular when it unsettles the existing order. People feel uneasy when someone stand up and says we have been doing things wrong and that things must change. Therefore, people maintain the status quo by suppressing unpopular speech.This enables the state to step in and define the framework within
which speech is free. And when this happens, we have only the illusion of free speech, and real freedom is lost.
People seek to shut down the opinions and expressions of others when they feel threatened by it. This sense of insecurity along with aggression is the hallmark of adolescence and runs as a common thread through all the oppressive actions we have noticed above. We seek strength in numbers. The mob provides us the comfort and the anonymity to suppress
opinions and views that we disagree with. Once all dissenting thought is suppressed, we will find only views that echo our own.
