Sentences with phrase «as free speech»

«There has yet to be a big court case over apps, so you can not say 100 % that it would be protected as free speech,» said Samuels of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

While many agree fake news is an issue, some suggest regulation while others say regulating social media would impose on rights such as free speech and freedom of the press.

Comparative advertising is routinely protected under the courts as free speech... as long as the truth is being presented.

There is no such thing as free speech, there is always a cost.

According to Sunstein, the robust protection now afforded to political speech protected as free speech (under the «clear and present danger» test) came about in the «I am your father» decisions of New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) and Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), revisiting the meaning of the First Amendment and rethinking the law that had come before it.

Indeed, the status of this topic as free speech that is supposed to be guaranteed under the First Amendment has been upheld by courts more than once: ● in Florida, where a judge affirmed that handing out FIJA brochures regarding jury nullification is legal based on principles of free speech ● in New York, where a federal judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against someone handing out brochures that advocated jury nullification ● in Colorado, where a judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against two people handing out FIJA's educational material on jury nullification

~ Turning to my own current preoccupation, readers and commentators assume that I see the Mann vs Steyn trial as a free speech case simply because I think I have the right to say what I said about his «fraudulent» hockey stick.

Eco activists who attempt to silence the voices of climate skeptics threaten intellectual freedom as well as free speech.

He's been caught time and again lying and mischaracterising and misquoting, which we don't defend as free speech when it does real harm.

Had Matt England's ire been unbridled by such vulgar preoccupations as free speech, democracy, and academic independence — the sort of thing he and Ward seem hostile to — science may not have made the discovery he now claims as his own (if it is indeed a discovery).

Finley is known best for her provocative theatrical pieces but has not been bound to one medium in her long and diverse exploration of such charged themes as free speech, sexual abuse, AIDS, and the female body.

One local school board member has banned me from commenting on his «public figure» Facebook page (which I see as a free speech violation), both because I questioned his denial of SGPs and some other conflicts of interests I saw, although indirectly related to this particular case.

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They hesitate and wobble indecisively even on so clear an issue of principle as free speech in the Geert Wilders controversy.

Green Party leaders congratulated voters in Kent, Ohio, for passing Issue 43, which called for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and abolish the legal definition of money as free speech, as well as establishment of an annual «Democracy Day» public hearing for residents to testify on the effect of big contributions from corporations and the wealthy on elections.

As a city councilman in 2002, he and other lawmakers honored Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe at City Hall, with Speaker Gifford Miller defending it as free speech.

The We the People Amendment is the only amendment that deals with both Supreme Court doctrines that grant constitutional rights to artificial entities and that define spending money as free speech.

Framing no - platforming as a free speech issue allows critics to brush aside welfare concerns without addressing them.

With the Roberts Supreme Court already apparently reconsidering past precedents with an eye toward treating corporate and union donations as free speech, a federal appeals court has now ruled on behalf of Emily's List that nonprofits can use functionally unbounded «soft money» to finance their election - year activities.

A Downing Street spokeswoman refused to comment, but a Home Office source told The Times: «Getting agreement about the thresholds for what constitutes extremism and what needs to be protected as free speech is not going to be easy or straightforward.»

Novak identifies the United States as a liberal society in the process of maturing, and proposes that the liberty of this society has and always will be dependent upon vigilance of mind with regard to such concerns as free speech, terrorism, and freedom of the press.

Not exact matches

A free market guy wouldn't favour a cap on cellphone roaming fees, as hinted in the speech from the throne.

In the past, Twitter has trumpeted its status as the «free - speech wing of the free - speech party,» the service responsible for helping topple dictators in Egypt and Libya.

And thanks to the ambiguous, specifics - free nature of the throne speech, they could still embrace competition, rather than regulation, as the best way to aid consumers.

Google is now positioning itself as a champion of free speech, a tricky claim for Microsoft to make as it continues to censor search results.

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.

To block very hurtful comments that do not use hate speech (something like «why don't you step in front of a truck») could be perceived as limiting free speech.

China president Xi Jinping is expected to present «the most authoritative interpretation» on China's 40 years of economic reforms and opening up as part of h's keynote speech, as well as announce the establishment of free - trade ports in Chinese provinces potentially including Hainan.

In Twitter's case, and to some extent YouTube's as well, the company has made a commitment to free speech, and to distributing content regardless of whether it is disturbing (although in Twitter's case that seems to be weakening).

Some of those responding to the memo are trying to defend its authorship as an issue of free speech.

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Meanwhile, other big digital newcomers to the media scene, including BuzzFeed and Business Insider, have also been slow to take up the public interest banner long carried by the likes of the New York Times and the Press - Enterprise (a small California paper that, as Liptak explained, took two free speech cases all the way to the Supreme Court in the 1980s).

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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.

Some right - wing websites have already started criticizing the company's latest move as a crackdown on free speech, and an attempt to enforce «politically correct» behavior.

For the most part, the courts have sided with them, enshrining free speech as one of the country's most protected laws along the way.

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Such a move would be widely viewed as an attack on free speech.

In recent years, the Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down laws it regards as government intrusion on free speech.

Facebook, which got the case moved to San Francisco from Illinois, argued the users hadn't suffered a concrete injury such as physical harm, loss of money or property; or a denial of their right to free speech or religion.

«Kanye West has a right to free speech, and he has the right to spout lies and misinformation and misplaced opinions — but we as consumers have the right to fight back against this type of dangerous propaganda,» it read.

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.

Taking advantage of the country's environment of free speech and data privacy, the CVA seeks to foster innovation within the world's leading blockchain and cryptographic ecosystem to pioneer digital technologies within Switzerland as well as internationally.

Part of what explains why the United States has been so reluctant to enact regulations on the internet and technology is the matter of free speech, as mandated by the US Constitution.

Rhetoric during his campaign stump speeches bemoaned the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and sparked worry as now - President Trump may scrap NAFTA and winnow the economic and trade linkages between the two countries.

You are probably for free speech as long as the questions that are asked don't make you uncomfortable?

I hope everyone notices that we have free speech as long as we agree with the consensus.

Laycock's hypothesis ripened into full - blown suspicion by June 2000 when Justice Stevens took the position that the free speech rights of the Boy Scouts were not violated by a state law requiring them to employ an avowed homosexual as an assistant scoutmaster.

You believe in free speech as long as it's what you want to hear.

«Unfortunately, this new action can not be seen as anything other than an attempt to muzzle the church and subject our right of free speech to government review and regulation,» he added.