Explain why Gandhi said the fight for swaraj is a fight for liberty of speech, liberty of press and freedom of association?

Gandhi said the fight for Swaraj is a fight for liberty of speech, liberty of the press, and
freedom of association due to following reasons :
(i) After the revolt of 1857, as the vernacular press became assertively nationalist, the colonial government tried to control it. Thus in 1878, the Vernacular Press Act was passed. The government now could censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press. The government could seize the press and confiscate the printing machinery.
(ii) When Punjab revolutionaries were deported in 1907, BaI Gangadhar Tilak wrote with great sympathy about them in his Kesari. This led to his imprisonment in 1908. There were widespread protests all over India.
(iii) During the First World War under the Defense of India Rules, 22 newspapers had to furnish securities. Of these, 18 shut down rather than comply with government orders.
(iv) Similarly during the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement, the Government of
India was trying to crush the three powerful vehicles of expressing and cultivating public opinion. So, Gandhi stated that the fight for Swaraj and for Khilafat was a fight for this threatened freedom of the Indians.

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