Sentences with phrase «free speech protections»

But aside from the reality that all art is political, «Citizens United» effectively gave cash donations the same free speech protections enjoyed by works of art.

EFF extended free speech protections online, successfully challenging the constitutionality of Internet censorship laws.

Yet there have been serious challenges to releasing the film and the book in the U.K.. That's because Britain does not have the same free speech protections as the United States.

This leaves citizens in Northern Ireland with far fewer free speech protections than their neighbours elsewhere in the UK.

«These actions send a terrible message to New York's children and are against constitutional free speech protections.

The effort for public funding of campaigns will be constrained by the cost of any public match on a tight state budget, and free speech protections asserted in U.S. Supreme Court rulings like the 2011 Citizens United case, which ruled corporate speech could not be limited.

Certainly there are very few things that would be straight - up banned in the US, as when it comes to video game content, the US Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that video games qualify for free speech protection.

I'm not against the use of Mortal Kombat footage for hilarity purposes (and I thought that this «Floridal Kombat» segment was very funny), but I do think it's odd for The Daily Show to cite Mortal Kombat as an example of a game that is so distasteful that it should invalidate the medium's free speech protection while also using the same game for its comedy needs.

So Ehrenfeld has taken the lead in promoting legislation, which would block enforcement of libel judgments from countries that provide less free speech protection than in the United States.

But if a member union takes a particular pro-free-speech view, it does seem odd that the AFL - CIO — which has long benefited from free speech protections, and has long fought for broadening such protections — would label that view «troubling and extreme.»

What I find most interesting about The Daily Show using Mortal Kombat clips as a punchline is that last July when the show reported on the Supreme Court decision that extended free speech protection to video games, the show used clips of this same Mortal Kombat game to argue that based on its gory and unsettling content, games should not enjoy such protection.

The United States has a long and proud history of legal protection for reading privacy, and the California Constitution has especially strong privacy and free speech protections.

One traditional schism in perceptions has been between academia (with tenure and free speech protections) and commerce.

«The policy went so far as to claim that the employees had no free speech protections when they made comments that negatively impacted the department, city or employees,» he says.

In Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006), the court declared that when public employees make statements pursuant to their official job duties, they have no free speech protection at all — even if the speech blows the whistle on alarming governmental corruption.

trademarks are private, not government speech, and are therefore entitled to free speech protections