I think these interviews and primary sources are important because people resonate more with anecdotal information rather than just plain information. One of the interviews explains why the right to offend should be protected regardless of if not everyone will like what an individual is saying and I included this one in particular because in this current day and age, it is very easy to offend anyone and some people dislike that that is a possibility, but the individual being interviewed explains the importance of why the government should not act on it and how it would be a violation of free speech. Some other pieces I included are primary statistics on censorship in China and an interview about how an Iranian woman experienced restriction of freedom of expression in Iran. All of these interviews and primary sources show a first hand point of view on how people think of freedom of speech and expression. Freedom of Expression: Interview with Author Moniro Ravanipour.
Ai Weiwei on Beijing: 'It's a prison for freedom of speech' CNN Official Interview: Larry Flynt defends free speech. Jordan Peterson: Free Speech & the Right to Offend. China's New Leaders Refine Internet Control. In keeping with the unmatched size of their online population, Chinese authorities employ the most elaborate system for internet content control in the world. Government agencies and private companies employ thousands of people to monitor, censor, and manipulate content, from news reports to social-network pages. Routine censorship can be reinforced surrounding politically sensitive events, or just in response to the latest hot topic. Even this heavily censored and manipulated online environment, however, provides more space for average citizens to express themselves and air their grievances against the state than any other medium in China. Content with the potential to delegitimize CCP rule is systematically censored.
These standing taboos are supplemented by evolving, almost daily directives on negative developments or budding civic movements over issues like environmental pollution, food safety, or police brutality. Chinese authorities are not transparent about censorship.