Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Both statements are true, since the right to communicate can open into a merely negative liberty and the free marketplace has quietly hollowed out free speech.

Statement 1 is sound because the right to communicate can prompt a negative liberty, a mere freedom from interference, though its positive, enabling side must still be recognised.

Statement 2 is sound because the hidden pull of the free marketplace has diluted free speech, bending it to suit corporate ends rather than open public debate.

The two together show both the philosophical limit and the economic capture that trouble communication rights.

Neither claim overreaches, so reading either as false would soften a real tension in the freedom to communicate.

Negative liberty as freedom-from and positive liberty as freedom-to is the classic distinction underlying the first statement.