Sentences with phrase «censoring speech»

Surely that would have been a better lesson for the students than censoring some speech while privileging other speech.

Sally Adee observes that bot accounts sometimes drown out the voices of actual humans on Twitter, «effectively censoring speech without...

YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have been accused by conservative and right - leaning groups of censoring their speech.

At the higher education level specifically, the free and open exchange of ideas is central to the academic mission, and even private institutions, which can theoretically censor speech, typically enact policies protecting free speech.

Under Tinker v. Des Moines, schools can censor speech that is likely to cause a substantial disruption to school activities.

«It's used disturbingly often to censor content that someone doesn't like, to censor speech someone doesn't like, precisely because it's so easy to use,» EFF Senior Staff Attorney Mitch Stoltz told me.

The people who assert the need to censor speech would never tolerate the same restrictions if they were imposed on them.

Not exact matches

Cook gave the Sunday speech at the opening ceremony of a conference designed to promote China's vision of the Internet — one that is more closed and censored, Bloomberg reports.

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.

But Zuckerberg said that Facebook unequivocally does not deliberately censor or prohibit speech for political reasons.

As a corporate entity, Facebook has every right to delete or censor whatever it wants, of course, since the First Amendment only applies to the actions of the government in restraining speech.

If Facebook censors certain kinds of speech, then for tens of millions of people it effectively ceases to exist, or becomes significantly less obvious.

Along with advocating for better education in schools regarding reading the news, Cook says that companies like Apple have to do their part to walk the line between preventing fake news and censoring free speech.

One such group of feminists fears that the censoring of sexually explicit materials would violate the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and backfire on women by permitting the censorship of feminist speech.

You are a communist organization that does not allow free speech and censor anything with which you disagree.

However, neither stockholder action nor boycotts should be used to censor specific speech, but to encourage the development of more diverse speech.

Perhaps you'd feel more comfortable is such a censored forum if free speech bothers you so?

It is considered politically incorrect and illiberal in Britain to question «gay opinion» and there is growing evidence from the Christian Institute and the St Thomas More Legal Centre of the Establishment's intent to censor debate and deny freedom of speech on the issue.

I'm just of the opinion that populism isn't a bad thing; I see controlled media in the hands of the few, spin, party politics, censoring and suppression of free speech as much more harmful to society.

Event organisers are finally coming under as much pressure from free speech defenders as they are censors.

If we censored everyone who makes vehement, tendentious and grossly unfair criticism of religious belief systems, we'd have little free speech left.

After conducting extensive research across all corners of the UK they showed that 80 % of universities, as a result of their official policies and actions, have either restricted or actively censored free speech and expression on campus beyond the requirements of the law.

Obama's first inaugural speech was not planned to be censored initially, until he mentioned «communism».

Sommers is all too familiar with lefty bullying: Like all too many unorthodox thinkers, she's faced numerous campus protests and even speech cancellations because the left would rather censor than argue.

Federal court decisions have found that the government faces a heavy burden to show a pressing public need whenever it moves to censor commercial speech.

A closer look, however, finds that the AMA is actually attempting to censor the free speech of doctors in media who draw attention to holistic medicine rather than the traditional Western treatments and medicines typically promoted by the pharmaceutical industry and conventional medicine.

Sleepy time is not a good time to interview the Ol' Tom Cat — my verbal censors are down — Gawd only knows what might come dribbling / gushing / oozing from my speech centers.

On Tuesday, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that the state's hate crime law does not cover anti-gay assaults or any crime Facebook's leaked rules on censoring hate speech protect «white men» but not «black children»

Frances McDormand may have given the best speech of the night at the 2018 Golden Globes — not that viewers at home were allowed to hear any of it, as producers went trigger happy with the bleep button, censoring many words that weren't offensive or rude.

One S - word and half his speech got censored.

Therefore, it did not defend the right of free speech and censored a great amount of terms, despite the criticism.

But the trend of federal courts since the 1980s has been to give school officials more authority in judging what would cause a substantial disruption, as well as allowing them to punish and censor vulgar speech, school - sponsored speech, and pro-drug speech.

Jimmy Kimmel lets teen finish his faculty - censored grad speech huffingtonpost.com/entry/jimmy-ki… via @HuffPostComedy

Objective, educational or historical political content may be accepted • Foul, vulgar, or obscene language, including censored words that indicate foul, vulgar, or obscene language • Images of human or animal abuse, mistreatment, or distress • Images or titles glorifying or promoting the use of illicit drugs, drug paraphernalia or products to beat drug tests • Images or titles that are obscene, defamatory, libelous, illegal, invasive of another's privacy, or contain hate speech • Images or titles that may be interpreted as threatening, abusive, harassing, or that discriminate or advocate against a protected group, whether based on race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other category.

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That said, the Rescue Chair's job is not to censor free speech, so any breach of the above protocol should be regarded as the poster's own personal opinion and not necessarily that of ECSCA - RP.

We won't censor content so long as this space is used constructively» - and with a pun on «free speech» as the blog name, too.

Does the Whitney Museum curtail freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and violate the first amendment rights of artists by censoring and suppressing works of art from its own collection?

If everyone who urges is a censor, then the comment pages of the newspapers must be closed in the name of free speech.

Steyn argues that societies that censor create more violence by driving hate speech underground.

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».

Horner's speech, titled «Business and Media Institute roundtable Panel: Global Worming Censored.»

is that he is asserting the reason that he was censored was for «speaking the truth about the hate speech directed at sceptics.»

Scottish sceptic: For example, just today I was censored from WUWT for speaking the truth about the hate speech directed at sceptics.

Answer: The Seattle public library «facilitates access to constitutionally protected information,» and will not compromise freedom of speech or censor information.

Morally, we say «no censorship», but logically we have to wonder if standing the moral high - ground and not allowing a censored version of the book in the collection is a victory for free speech, but a defeat for the student that is banned from reading the book altogether?

Between Mongolia and Canada, can you tell which country is less censored in terms of online freedom of speech?

Sackett notes that Bates classified lawyer advertising as commercial free speech, and that such speech can be restricted but not censored.

Ruling that «regulation of speech must be a last resort,» U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said the state should have tried less invasive options, like beefing up existing discrimination rules, rather than «censor a source of truthful information.»

The mere existence of the licensor's unfettered discretion, coupled with the power of prior restraint, intimidates parties into censoring their own speech, even if the discretion and power are never actually abused.