Freedom of the press is generally viewed as a negative liberty-freedom from interference with what a writer writes or a reader reads. It is not necessarily incompatible with negative liberty, but has a different focus or emphasis. Positive liberty can best be understood as freedom to.
Negative liberty, therefore, can be described as freedom from. A law requiring motorcyclists to wear a helmet would be, under this definition, to prevent them from enjoying the freedom to go bareheaded if they wish. It can be defined as the absence of restraint, a freedom from interference by outside authority with individual thought or behavior.
“This was a transformation from what the late Isaiah Berlin described as “Negative Liberty” to “Positive Liberty.”4 The idea of negative liberty is perhaps more familiar.
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