Comment by chbint

Seems logically equivalent. If you have the right to express your opinions (no qualifier here, so they can be popular or not), that means no one can do anything to you (unless you commit a crime, of course). Perhaps one could argue that "speech" encompasses more than "opinion", but then the issue would become terminological.

Anyway, Brazil has freedom of speech in the very sense you've mentioned here. Unpopular speech is not a crime.