Sentences with phrase «collings about free speech»

Since his identity as Hogan's backer was revealed, Thiel's crusade against Gawker has been decried by a number of prominent journalists and defenders of a free press, who note that a billionaire bankrupting a media outlet as part of a personal vendetta raises serious questions about free speech.

That decision, rooted in constitutional arguments about free speech, removed certain limits on corporate political donations.

But part of my fascination with representing activists and organizers is really about free speech.

Jacobs: You've talked a lot about free speech, civil rights, the principles of that.

Law professor Eugene Volokh, who blogs about free speech issues at the Washington Post, has made the same point in the past to argue that Google's (GOOG) choice of search results are a form of free speech.

The right to offend is what free speech looks like in practice, and the whole point about free speech is you don't pick who gets to enjoy it.

You are correct about free speech: we should be American enough to accept the concept that you have the right to say what you did in your post.

Consensus or not, most of the proposed ban's pushback has come from concerns about free speech, that holiest of cows in the Western world.

«In some of these cases, the people releasing these films or cartoons are trying to make a statement about free speech, which is fair enough,» says Bergen, referring to the film and other provocative recent depictions of Mohammed, Islam's founding prophet.

«What about free speech?

This is less about free speech than it is about... though I hate this term... «political correctness.»

You see, this is NOT about free speech.

The debate over the Cecil Rhodes statue in Oxford University is not about free speech, it's about who we want to celebrate.

It all sounds so noble, the shouting about free speech.

It is equally not about free speech or press freedom because as my view is that no rational human being can justify what they said because it has nothing to with free speech and press freedom.

While the decision to hold or cancel the event is entirely the business of the DUS, it once again raises the increasingly unpleasant debate about free speech in this country.

You are here: News > Andrew Copson addresses Parliament's human rights committee about free speech on campus

Whether we're talking about free speech on Usenet, the policy questions of legitimate marketing and com - mercial activity conducted over email, or the desirable but spam - ish mes - sages that trip the filters and disappear, there is always friction not around the most egregious case (no one argues for Leo Kuvayev's «\ / 1@gR / - \» messages) but at the blurry places where spam threatens to blend into acceptable use, and fighting one might have a deleterious effect on the other.

As the tension escalates, there are some poking between the ribs questions too about free speech and facts in the post-truth era.

From docs about free speech and doping, to features about life after death.

This led to an investigation which confirmed the buy and resulted in various firings, not to mention sparking a multitude of questions about free speech.

Do you have a question about our free speech policy?

Compulsively readable, This Is How It Begins is a timely novel about free speech, the importance of empathy, and the bitter consequences of long - buried secrets.

Still, it would be nice if they would care about free speech for game devs, game critics and game journalists as much as they do about free speech for edgelords, MRAs, white supremacists, child pornographers, revenge porn distributors, twitter dogpilers and the sort of repugnant assholes who try to shame fat girls into suicide.

An attempted performance about free speech in Cuba, however, has landed her in legal hot water.

A week ago I joined Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Kirsten Powers, Bosch Fawstin and others on John Stossel's Fox News documentary special about free speech, «Censored in America».

This is not about free speech, but about propriety.

Judith Curry seems to be confused about free speech and what constitutes «McCarthyism».

Yet, this is not a case about free speech writ large, nor about the guaranty of a fair trial, nor about any cognizable constitutional right of public access to the courts.

It is not merely coincident with the start of the Supreme Court term that lots of people seem to be talking about free speech.

As for the aforementioned New York Times piece about Peltz's lawsuit, it concludes with what may be a classic case of understatement: «The Arkansas case could do more than give law students practical experience before they take the bar; it could also renew debate about free speech on campus and academic freedom.»

(And it is delightful to see that a Task Force headed by a former law dean can talk about free speech without relying on the Charter guarantee.)

Social networks and their Terms of Service (TOS) have been at the centre of current online debates about free speech and hate speech on the Web.

Ken White: News and pop culture are full of controversies about free speech in the First Amendment.

What about the free speech of corporate directors who have to declare conflicts and leave the meeting when their interests are debated?

«Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say» - Edward Snowden We all look at cyber security from different angles, as do those whom plan to circumvent our security measures.

The company's sales to a Russia - connected troll farm raise big questions about free speech in advertising and beyond.

But they also contributed to a larger conversation about free speech in an era where social - media posts replace political pamphlets and the public square has increasingly moved into cyberspace.

The Ethereum community is generally passionate about free speech.

Los Angeles About Blog Popehat authors want to talk about free speech, liberty, criminal justice, the legal system and its foibles, and related issues.

Not exact matches

Twitter has often boasted about its commitment to the principles of free speech, sometimes leading to criticism from those who felt the company was more interested in tolerating all forms of speech than in trying to ensure a harassment - free experience for its users.

Although Thiel implies in his essay that the Gawker story about Hogan's sex tape would not have been published by any right - thinking journalistic outlet, and that the First Amendment doesn't and shouldn't protect such behavior, two higher - court judges ruled before the Hogan decision that the Gawker piece was clearly covered by the Constitution's free - speech protections.

For all his talk about principles like openness and free speech, his leadership is better viewed as a balancing of constituencies, a reality familiar to any politician.

Disney's decision to settle will likely alarm free speech advocates who argue the lawsuit sought to silence legitimate reporting about the food industry.

His remarks were instead a mashup of his campaign stump speech greatest hits, talking about criminal justice reform, a «broken economy,» free tuition at public colleges, the minimum wage and campaign finance reform.

So twitter, a company that can never shut up about how they stand up for free speech, kowtowed to the NFL.

As blame fell to Facebook for Trump's election, word of Facebook prototyping a censorship tool for operating in China escaped, triggering questions about its respect for human rights and free speech.

«Despite the level of hysteria and partisanship in American politics, we are surprised and disappointed by the unprecedented attack on a media company by an organization that purports to value free speech,» American Media officials said in a statement Tuesday about the Common Cause complaint.

His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the «poster child» for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe.

Well, if you're a tech company, then it's much easier to regulate your product without worries about infringing on free speech and freedom of the press, particularly if it can be proven that Facebook is bad for mental health and perhaps even for democracy.