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While many see it as a stronghold for free speech, the Internet is becoming increasingly commercialized and therefore increasingly limited in content. Free speech web hosting resists this infringement of free speech rights by hosting all legal content, popular or not.

Some web hosting services are more concerned about avoiding offense to some of their users than they are about providing a platform for everyone to express their ideas, thoughts and musings.

Free speech web hosting promotes and encourages the ideals of free speech; ideals that the United States of America was founded upon, and ideals that many are trying to spread around the world.

This effort has become more global with the advent of the Internet. Free speech is an important principle for all members of society in every part of the world to be able to make their voices heard and views known regardless of circumstance, government, economic condition, or philosophical stand.

Free speech web hosting sites understand the underlying reasons for promoting and allowing free speech, even speech that could be offensive, annoying, or abhorrent to some people — perhaps even the majority of people — in a country or a world.

There have certainly been enough historical instances where the prevailing point of view and popular opinion turned out to be wrong that anyone should be able to see the value in allowing all points of view to be heard.

A history in the world showing those in power repressing alternative or unpopular voices would include the oppression of scholars such as Copernicus, the Inquisition, and more recently the specters of Nazism and Italian Fascism as well as other repressive regimes such as Apartheid in South Africa.

Anytime those in power decide that one voice should be censored or suppressed, it opens the door for them to censor any voice. Who decides what voices are acceptable and what voices are unacceptable? Who gets the power to decide? And who has the right to disagree with that power?

Free speech is necessary, because sometimes the popular or the accepted in not always right. And even when an unpopular speaker is wrong, dangerous or deluded, he or she is entitled to the human dignity that comes from expressing oneself.

In today’s world, it is more often those with money and assets who limit speech. Generally speaking, they are limiting it not for philosophical reasons, but rather for economic reasons. So the freedom of the individual is now being subjected not to the power of the government, but instead to the power of the corporation, of the stockholder, of the marketing professional.

Many times those with wealth attempt to limit the power of speech through expensive litigation. Those without access to the money to fight legal maneuvers are stripped of their rights of expression.

That is why free speech web hosting is an important part of the Internet today. On free speech web hosting sites, any speech is allowed, encouraged and supported. Many sites make a point of allowing unpopular dissent and controversial content, and some allow you to post anonymously.

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