Sentences with phrase «from protected speech»

Not exact matches

But if the Facebook Like is protected speech because it ostensibly communicates «the user's approval... and support» of the person, status or thing liked, as Traxler wrote, then what of liking things sarcastically or in jest, or — to use an example from another social network — of «hate - favoriting» on Twitter?

The main point to emphasize here is that there is no special free speech reason to protect shareholders from managerial control of corporate speech.

The theme of his speech was the five pillars of Canada's digital strategy: improving Internet connectivity, protecting Canadians from threats like cyberbullying, ensuring Canadian content, economic opportunity and digital government.

For example, Facebook defines hate speech as a direct attack — dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority or calls for exclusion or segregation — on people from protected groups.

A parallel can be found in a civil right as sacred as that of free speech, which can not be infringed but does suffer some regulation: pornography, fighting words, and libel are not protected from state law by the First Amendment.

In a statement, Broglio's office said: «Archbishop Broglio and the Archdiocese stand firm in the belief, based on legal precedent, that such a directive from the Army (about not reading the letter) constituted a violation of his Constitutionally - protected right of free speech and the free exercise of religion, as well as those same rights of all military chaplains and their congregants.»

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

It is not a sword driving private religious expression from the marketplace of ideas; rather, it is a shield, constraining the state to protect religiously motivated speech and action.

Since pastors are free to make political endorsements as individual citizens, just not in their official capacities as leaders of the church, supporters of the Johnson Amendment contend that rather than restricting political speech, the rules protect nonprofits from lobbying interests.

We do not have the right to be protected from offensive speech when it does not incite violence or panic.

The First Amendment protects our freedom of speech; it does not protect us from the consequences of the things we say.

In other words, just because a teaching is from a holy text doesn't protect it from becoming disrespectful speech.

In a speech in Sydney on Thursday, Mr Sims will warn Australian firms that the competition watchdog will not protect them from competition from new players such as Amazon - even if it means some firms will fail.

The pitiful excuse given by the Treasurer for protecting the supermarket duopoly from this legislation - again, from his second reading speech - was:

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

Now a death threat isn't protected speech, and it's not really a parallel case, but I don't think it's right to claim that if you get pissed off / hurt feelings from criticism, you shouldn't speak out at all.

Ultimately, even if you are so criticized that you speech is effectively suppressed, then your legally derived rights don't protect you from being shouted down by the citizenry, but you are protected from the government.

Generally speaking, anything that a member of Congress says during a speech or debate in Congress is protected by the U.S. Constitution from lawsuits and criminal prosecution.

It's also part of a broader problem, in that politically - minded young people often seem instinctively uninterested in JS Mill - type arguments for free speech, and consider censorship questions as more about protecting certain groups from emotional pain than protecting individuals from those who would stop them participating in debate.

In response to calls from Humanists UK and others, the Joint Committee on Human Rights has today published comprehensive guidance on the law protecting and limiting free speech for students and universities.

Cuomo's speech seemed intended to prove his progressive credentials, from making «advancing the women's agenda» the first topic of his address — an effort to perhaps capitalize on the #MeToo movement — to his numerous proposals to protect the environment.

In particular some of his proposals are anathema to a free and safe Democracy based on free speech, a rule of laws protecting us from unjust imprisonment, and freedom of Religion.

@leeand00, How would we protect ourselves from foreigners in any other country (that has the freedom of speech), or from other countries «wishing to do the USA harm» in written / spoken form.

Elsewhere in the speech, Mr Cameron reiterated his pledge to protect Britain from the European crisis.

Highlights from a speech by Murdo Fraser MSP, Deputy Scottish Tory leader, in his Members» Debate on Action to Protect the Red Squirrel:

The borough president will use the speech to discuss a wide variety of topics, including the need to protect the city's vulnerable populations — namely immigrants — from Trump and the ongoing development of the borough's waterfront, according to officials from Diaz's office.

In a keynote speech to Progress, the Blairite thinktank, the business secretary said the government recognised the need to «prioritise and economise» once Britain emerges from recession, but would do so while protecting frontline services.

In 2009, his speech described that renewable energy would «transform our economy, protect our security and save our planet from the ravages of climate change.»

He'll be giving a speech to the U.N. in just a few days to defend himself against charges of unilateral aggression by saying that he was simply pre-emptively protecting his people from terrorism.

After a devastating election from a liberal perspective, and as Meryl Streep pointed out in her Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe speech, with the feeling that Hollywood is being attacked by the right, it very well might want to protect itself and also, reward itself.

Meanwhile, Khrushchev desperately tries to protect Stalin's children: Vasily (Rupert Friend), the boss's incapable drunken son, who delivers a seriously egregious funeral speech; secondly, the pale, shell - shocked Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough, hardly recognizable from her part as the dreamy hippie love interest in Battle of the Sexes).

This analysis reflects the fact that the federal Constitution protects us from certain kinds of governmental action — such as state - imposed segregation, prohibitions on free speech, or invasions of personal privacy — but does not create expansive positive rights or guarantee governmental assistance.

«NSBA is representing the voices of parents and others who want their children focused on education and protected from lewd speech while attending public schools,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions pledged to defend free speech on campuses and criticized the idea of creating safe spaces on campus, protected from...

This is crucial to the Friedrichs case because the First Amendment protects against compelled political speech, and the CTA — like many public sector unions — takes mandatory agency fees from nonmembers to cover its collective bargaining costs.

Those in favor of his suspension generally point out that America's 1st Amendment guarantee of free speech only protects you from government interference regarding political speech (and does not prevent employers from exercising their rights to discipline employees), whereas those defending Robertson have been quick to lament the knee - jerk reaction to those expressing counter-progressive cultural beliefs in a very clumsy fashion, and claim there is a double standard in which politically unpopular conservative viewpoints are quicker to result in job terminations than politically unpopular liberal viewpoints that are also clumsily expressed.

These types of punishments are utilized at the discretion of the school administrators, who sometimes find themselves in the difficult position of protecting students» right to free speech while still protecting them from bullying.

«The association stated that the ban targets protected speech, preventing debt relief providers from receiving fees for speaking to their customers and providing educational, coaching, and counseling information.»

Named after the heralded «Four Freedoms» wartime address delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, the super PAC intends to evoke the protection of inherent freedoms such as speech and worship, in addition to protecting from want and fear.

They let their cyclone model compare wind damage with either cyclone management or with hardening strategies to protect buildings — and find «if practically feasible and properly implemented, modification could reduce net losses from an intense storm more than hardening structures» [or to translate this to policy speech, do it equally good at a lower financial cost].

President Obama also ended his speech with a call to recognize the sacred importance of protecting Earth by recalling the astonishment of the astronauts when they saw the Earth from outer space as they came around the moon for the first time.

Courts have found that people still have free - speech rights when it comes to publishing information over the internet, but that they're not protected from being sued by their comments.

In Morse v. Frederick, writing in dissent, the Justice opined that a school's interest in protecting students from speech was a...

The US Senate has passed a bill against «libel tourism», essentially barring the enforcement of defamation judgments from places that the US deems to protect free speech insufficiently.

Citizens who curse at police and call them abusive names while they're investigating a crime are protected from arrest by the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case out of Seattle.

U.S. President Obama today signed into law the «Speech Act,» which is aimed at protecting U.S. writers from foreign libel judgments from jurisdictions that, in the opinion of a U.S. court, do not adequately protect freedom of speech.

Marc Randazza wrote a brilliant opinion piece for CNN that fought against the grain of populist opinion and so eloquently stated that the shittiest of speech, that which Mr. Limbaugh spews on a daily basis from the mighty KMOX, is protected under the First Amendment.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani determined that enjoining the defendants from making defamatory statements in the future does not violate their constitutional free speech rights, and will protect Dr. Sindi from future harm.

All rights — freedom of speech, religion, trial by jury — that are protected by the 7th Amendment and that safeguard Americans from government and corporate overreach, Graves says.

Because the impact of pornography occurs through the mediation of an audience witnessing a performance, rather than an audience receiving physical services from a performer, pornography and its making qualify as First - Amendment protected speech.