Yet it is most important for government. A government which does not know what the people feel and think is in a dangerous position. This is how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were toppled in the same is happening again in other regions of the world today. The governments that muzzle free speech run a risk of pushing their people to behave destructively or to repel. Furthermore, without free speech, no political action is possible and no resistance to injustice and oppression is possible