Sentences with phrase «free speech protections as»

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.

Not exact matches

At the other end of the spectrum, one might treat phrases like «equal protection» and «free speech» as an invitation to judges to fashion whatever rules best serve the general values that the phrases suggest: equality, free expression, and so forth.

Such groups have claimed that federal hate crimes laws will silence preachers, ignoring those laws» robust protections for free speech and religious expression, as well as the experience in the many states with such protections already in place.

President Muhammadu Buhari maintained his stand point on the brouhaha associated with the anti social media bill being sponsored by the Senate as he says his administration remains committed to the protection of free speech in keeping with democratic tradition.

The other board members seized on Paladino's comments as an opportunity to remove him from the Board of Education, despite protection under the First Amendment and his right to free speech, the lawsuit alleges.

The First Amendment guarantees free speech and a free and unrestrained press as the primary protections for ensuring a diverse marketplace of ideas in support of an informed citizenry.

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.

Anticipating that others will behave in this way, in turn, allows everyone to more confidently invest in denial at t = 0: To avoid this deleterious outcome, organizations and societies will find it desirable to set up ex-ante guarantees such as whistle - blower protections, devil's advocates, constitutional rights to free speech, independence of the press, etc..

Such advertising was prohibited as illegal solicitation of legal services until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that restrictions on advertising professional services violated constitutional protections of free speech.

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.

Many rights holders have welcomed the decision as providing fair protection, but free speech organisations characterise the decision as «race to the bottom».

«The exercise of what amounts to censorship, then, can legitimately be viewed as the stifling of commercial free speech, which has constitutional protection.»

Too often, protections for free speech and innovation are seemingly forgotten as soon as someone cries «infringement.»