Publications throughout America and the West have spilt a great deal of ink in analyzing and assessing the implications of this speech, all of which have come more or less to the same conclusion: the speech will challenge President Obama in being able to address the key issues that drive the Muslim world.
"But when it is time to discuss the implications of my speech, the women disappear, and only the 'important' people attend these discussions.
Several countries, including some in the West, place limits on free speech when it is deemed blasphemous or denies the Holocaust, which has engendered worldwide debate about the implications of free speech.
"The consent-to-record issues here go beyond just Duplex to the broader legal implications of machine speech," said Gabe Rottman, director of the Technology and Press Freedom Project at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
There was no implication in the speech of willingness to freeze the expansion of the settlements -- an important symbol that the Israelis are willing to alter the status quo.
Readers' concerns ran the gamut from the implications of unfettered religious speech to tax exemptions.
I ask about the freedom of speech implications of the judgment – surely every politician will be applying to Google, trying to scrub away the traces of the sordid affair, the expenses scandal?
Last week we were puzzled by the implications of Hitler's speech, and as usual, Miss Thompson spoke to us soothingly.
Mr. Khrushchev gambled that it could — and he won, although many observers doubted that he had calculated all the implications of his bravura speech.
Labour also weighed in, attacking the timing of the speech and rejecting implications from Cameron that it had failed to address issues of Islamic extremism and the complex issues of multiculturalism during 13 years in office.
