Authors freedom

In the last week we talked about different perspectives on freedom. We glanced over different documents to see how different authors see different pros and cons to certain situation and although now we have these stories public and available everywhere it made me wonder, since these documents were published back in the day by the lower class, does that mean that they were not received at all to the public? Was it strictly to those who were present? So than I went back back and thought what authors have also been neglected or had different views. And of course I find that practically every author we have read about has had difficulties releasing their point of view. Take George Orwell. He had escaped his country and created a new “freedom” but yet he still had to change his name and even some parts of his story to avoid legal trouble. Also Ayn Rand who has been controversial to people for ages.  Even though America is not at 100% equality I still feel that we are really fortunate that we can have a freedom of speech that even if the government turns down or ideas, that enough people believe in Freedom of Speech and will try to make every voice heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8m8cQI4DgM&list=PLmKbqjSZR8TYD9bf1-N9MYe_cSEwQAx43