Members of the small Jewish community of Whitefish, Mont., a resort town 60 miles south of the Canadian border, believe a line was crossed
between free speech rights and credible threats of violence.
While frustrations are now growing among some elected officials and local leaders who say no progress has been made, Quinn said she hopes that Brookfield and the protesters will be able to come to together in the coming days to reach a compromise that strikes the right balance
between the free speech rights of the protesters and mounting concerns from nearby businesses and residents that «are not insignificant,» she said.
Not exact matches
To absolutize the
right of
free speech would prevent the Supreme Court from ever drawing the line
between invasion of necessary
rights and the protection of democracy, and thus would make it self - contradictory.
Newmania: You do know there's a difference
between the
right to
free speech and the
right to edit a national newspaper without people disagreeing with you, don't you?
We uphold the ideal of
free speech on reddit as much as possible not because we are legally bound to, but because we believe that you - the user - has the
right to choose
between right and wrong, good and evil, and that it is your responsibility to do so.
The California law, adopted first, faced two court challenges from SOCE practitioners on the grounds that it violated their
free speech rights, but last August a federal appeals court upheld the statute, distinguishing
between the
rights practitioners enjoy to advocate for the practice in public debate and the limitations on the therapeutic practices they can employ in their professional conduct governed by state licensing.
We excluded instances of conflicts
between schools and teachers (such as teacher dismissal cases) and
between schools and nonstudent outsiders (such as drug - and weapon -
free - zone cases that did not involve students), as well as student
rights cases focused exclusively on
free speech issues (that is, those not combined with the school's use of suspension, expulsion, corporal punishment, and transfer).
(Likewise, there is also a «tension»
between copyright censorship, and the
right to
free speech.)
The problem being that logic and objectivity have little to say about the
right way to navigate the
between allowing
free speech on the one hand, and terminating interlocutors on the other.
Although the First Amendment's talismanic sway in the United States isn't likely to diminish anytime soon, the push and pull
between privacy and
free speech is increasingly playing out here as the
right to be forgotten becomes a bigger part of the debate.
I believe that one of the great characteristics of a liberal democracy is that getting the «
right» mix of these values, the «
right» interrelationship
between them, can itself be debated, can itself be the subject of
free speech.
Thankfully, Canadian law relating to the elements required to establish defamation as well as the required elements to establish discrimination and hate
speech are notably distinct from the U.S.A, and in these areas better reflect international human
rights standards on the balance that should be struck
between freedom of expression and the
right to be
free of both defamation and racial discrimination.
«The balance is
between the
right to a fair trial and the
right of
free speech.
This really comes as a battle
between free speech and the
right to a good reputation (most people cite Art 8 ECHR as guaranteeing the
right to a good reputation («correspondence»)-RRB-