Existentialism- freedom of expression and censorship

Humanity is faced by freedom and choices. Freedom becomes a responsibility. Your freedom is the freedom to be whoever you wish to be and express yourself in a certain way. This gives you the freedom to choose what values you follow. This being said we are supposed to express ourselves as whom we truly are. Freedom of speech is ethical since we are expressing our true thoughts. There comes an abuse of power with this something Sartre called Bad Faith. Bad Faith is when we deny the responsibility by also denying freedom. Bad Faith is a way in which we lie to ourselves. A person might say truly offensive things then say that there is nothing wrong with what he said as he had no choice but to express himself. Philosophers would argue that this isn’t honesty since they let their anger take over their thoughts. People are allowed to express themselves by acting the way they choose to. We are the way we are and censorship would come in between us and our freedom of expression, therefore censorship is bad. We exist; we find ourselves alive and must find our own way of defining our existence. Soren Kierkegaard is considered the father of existentialism and thought that the individual is responsible for giving his or her own life a meaning and to live in a passionate and truthful way. Our individuality and freedom are very important things, we are to stop censorship and use freedom of speech and expression as it allows us to be ourselves. Censorship is never ethical as it suppresses our thoughts and freedom of speech is always ethical as long as we don’t fall into Bad Faith.