Before there was the Constitution of the United States, and before there was even the United States of America, there was the Declaration of Independence, signed by each of the thirteen colonies, representatives. That Declaration of Independence, made it clear that each one of us has the unalienable right of liberty, and that implicitly part of having that liberty is our freedom to speak our mind as well as to think our thoughts without unwarranted governmental constraints.
We now live in a troubling age, in which so much of what we do in public or through social media, or by our travels, or through our credit cards, or by our phone conversations, are subject to oversight directly or indirectly by governmental forces, as well as by corporations that are able to thereby obtain detailed dossiers of virtually every citizen that is an active participant with the tools of this modern age. The very fact, that we are now to a very large degree, being watched, and watched not only in the public streets of society, but by virtue of the devices that we utilize within our private space, also being watched there; means that the speaking of our minds, in an age and era, in which words spoken can easily be recorded, unbeknownst to us or not, puts mankind on the pathway of their speech being stymied, silenced, or modified, even without civil or criminal penalties, just by the fact that it can be listened to by outside sources. That is to say, part of the pernicious consequence of being watched, in which people know that they are being watched is that this often serves to modify behavior of those people to thereby conform to expected community standards.
Of even more concern, is that when people are subsequently afraid to think certain thoughts, because those thoughts run outside the given orthodoxy of that time, in which those people doing that thinking believe that logically most actions ultimately committed are preceded by thoughts upon such, are prone to self-censoring themselves in order to conform to the standards of the community that watches over them. So then, in any situation in which adults are precluded from thinking certain thoughts because they fear the consequences of those thoughts actualized, they are no longer free; and when people are afraid to voice their viewpoint whether verbally or by other means, because they fear the consequences of doing so, then they are no longer free.
When any state or corporations within that state, are able to affect the free thinking, talking, and doing of citizens, what thereby occurs is that those that think outside the box, or are creative, or different, or march to the beat of a different drummer, are to a very large degree, silenced or modified in their subsequent thoughts and deeds. To somehow believe that the future of mankind is in the conformity of mankind, in which the more conformance, the better that society, is a monstrous error; for mankind was not ever meant to be automatons, but instead have all been equally gifted by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, of which no state or corporate entity has the ethical right to subsume such, and to thereby steal their fellow citizens' freedom of thought, or of speech, as if that state or corporate entity was their creator, and thereupon their master puppeteer.