User blog comment:SeddieNumberOneFan/Important, un-answered questions./@comment-3250643-20110604222815/@comment-2208586-20110605125004

Not exactly, it is that you are allowed to express your opinion no matter how bad it is without getting punished. So you could (as an example) call a president an [put some really rude word here, that word which begins with a and ends with e and basically means butt is prefered] and you won't get arrested / killed - it wasn't like that a 100 years ago.

So it has not a lot to do with shutting up though.