Eight Values of Free Expression

 When taking a look at all the prompts, the prompt "Marketplace of Ideas" really resonated with me when I saw it. New ways of thinking and ideas are the future of society. If we are stuck in the past and not progressing like other countries will only get ahead more and more while we are stuck behind. A big way of getting ahead is letting people give opinions to the public. The way that I am, I love to get ahead in any way possible, for example, getting ahead of AI and seeing what ways it can help me advance in my profession and in my day-to-day life as well. If we couldn't freely give our opinions, how could we possibly get ahead? There is someone in their room inventing and thinking of new ideas, and if they can't freely say their thoughts, how could we possibly learn from what they have been creating and inventing? The internet has its good and bad parts about it, but one of the beneficial parts of the internet is the fact that we can talk freely and share ideas where people can look at it and build on someone else's idea and turn it into somthing way bigger than it what it orginaly was. A great example of this would be Bitcoin. Bitcoin was a random idea that was posted online in 2008, and people picked it up, and developers started building on it, and now it is a global financial asset worth hundreds of billions. Without the internet and people being able to give ideas freely somthing like Bitcoin would have never become what we know it is today. Freedom of speech is a big part of what makes America America; with that being said, the number of ideas that have been shared and brought to life is almost endless. Being able to put an idea out on the internet and the whole world is special because not every country has that amount of freedom to do things like this, and we as Americans can sometimes take it for granted or just overlook it because it is somthing that is given to us, but there are people in other countries that are actively fighting for the things that are given to us birth. So it's something that we should be really appreciative that we have because being able to share ideas out to the world is super beautiful and very empowering and the amount of people that you can inspire and the amount of things that you can create is something extremely special and I think that Americans should not take advantage of it and we should look at it as a gift and really take advantage of it because to be honest, we aren't really using this freedom to its max capacity. This could be something that is super built upon to where our future generation is looking back at older ideas taken from them and building upon them because we have more resources.
And there have been different things created to build upon these certain ideas.