Sentences with phrase «neutrality which»

Therefore, if there is a method of achieving the aim of religious neutrality which would cause less hardship to employees, this should be preferred over a blanket ban on all religious symbols or dress.

Curators too demand a neutrality which mitigates against any departures from the norm.

Short of these expressly proscribed governmental acts there is room for play in the joints productive of a benevolent neutrality which will permit religious exercise to exist without sponsorship and without interference.»

Not exact matches

One caveat, however: Net neutrality, which simply means that ISPs are required to treat all content equally, regardless of what it is, and they can't give preference to some digital content providers over others, including yours.

Rules in jeopardy include «net neutrality,» which bars internet service providers from favoring some websites and apps over others.

Whether it's Britain enacting filters designed to block porn but which will inevitably snare a lot of other content, or Google flip - flopping on net neutrality now that it's a broadband provider, or whether it's people just getting overcharged for access in general, nothing good seems to be happening to this once - great democratizing and enabling force.

So in 2015 the FCC decided to anchor light - touch net neutrality protections in the firm legal ground of Title II of the Communications Act, which defines broadband providers as «common carriers.»

Fair enough, but under the new EU net neutrality laws (which aren't yet in force), the only kind of outright traffic shaping that will be allowed will be for highly specialized services — think dedicated packages for Internet TV or cars or medical applications.

«This is another effort from the operators to sell online services access to their customer base,» said Joe McNamee, the executive director of digital rights group EDRi, which campaigned hard for strong net neutrality laws.

In fact, the new net neutrality rules stem from a lawsuit filed by Verizon in 2011, which challenged the FCC's original «Open Internet» provision.

They argue that zero - rating violates the «spirit» of net neutrality since it gives ISPs the power to decide which services can and can not receive a technical advantage over everyone else, thus putting them beyond the status of «dumb» pipe providers.

The European Union recently agreed on new net neutrality laws which, though they are not yet in force, will ban operators from blocking content — unless it falls into very specific categories such as malware.

What's also notable is that the paper was sponsored by internet.org, the internet - access initiative headed by Facebook, which has faced a multitude of complaints over perceived violations of net neutrality.

Fortune's Aaron Pressman has argued that undermining the public comment system would give a tactical edge to industry opponents of net neutrality, and that seems to be the thinking of the Trump FCC itself, which has refused to cooperate with an investigation into the fake comments by the New York Attorney General.

The controversial decision to repeal net neutrality, which opened the door to Internet providers favoring certain online traffic, could still be overturned.

As this makes clear, killing net neutrality will make ISPs rich but kill innovation — and even potentially slow down the growth of the U.S. economy, which is partially driven by the success of its major tech companies.

But the company said it still opposes the 2015 net neutrality rules, which prevent Internet service providers from blocking, slowing or otherwise discriminating against online content.

Two year old federal net neutrality rules, which prevent Internet service providers from blocking or slowing websites and online services, could be an early casualty of the new Trump administration.

Pai, in his speech last month, took the opposite view and specifically critiqued the net neutrality rules, which rely on laws in Title II of the federal Communications Act.

The CRTC is asking respondents whether they'd be willing to pay $ 5 per month to cover increased internet usage costs for a particular online service if it didn't count against their data cap, which looks like a direct reference to a net neutrality complaint currently in front of the commission:

The public has vehemently rejected its current proposal, which would allow Internet service companies to enact «fast lanes,» but if the agency decides to enforce net neutrality and reclassify broadband providers, it faces an avalanche of lawsuits from phone and cable companies.

With actual net neutrality rules in the United States in limbo if not dead, large network owners such as Comcast are effectively free to engage in whatever activities they want, which is exactly how this situation has been perceived; Netflix had no choice but to give in to its customers being held hostage.

Many small businesses now rely on video as a core part of their marketing strategy, which could change dramatically if net neutrality is eliminated.

However, it's worth noting that the FTC is forbidden from enforcing «common carriers» — a designation that was applied to all ISPs as part of the most recent net - neutrality rules, which reclassified the internet as a public utility and allowed the FCC to regulate it as such.

The senators had asked the agency whether the zero rating practices violated net neutrality rules, which prohibit Internet service providers from discriminating against any online content.

The FCC voted 3 - 2 in December to overturn the net neutrality rules, which barred broadband providers from blocking or slowing access to content or allowing websites to pay for fast lanes to get their content more quickly to consumers.

Fake public comments on net neutrality appear to have been rampant prior to the FCC's vote last Thursday to repeal the regulations, which were first implemented in 2015.

The majority of the debate revolves around the FCC's proposal to eliminate net neutrality, which would allow Internet service providers to create multiple levels of connection speeds, charging companies for access to «fast lanes» — a move critics argue will automatically create «slow lanes.»

The actor, best known for playing Luke Skywalker, was less than amused by the video Pai released last week, in which he dressed up as Santa and explained the «seven things you can still do on the Internet after net neutrality.»

Pai has claimed that net neutrality rules prevented Internet service providers from investing in infrastructure, which is why the repeal had to be rushed through the FCC so quickly in the first place.

Although the retirement industry has been moving toward fee neutrality over the last decade, it is this business model in which a non-fiduciary advisor is compensated by a plan provider that is most vulnerable to changes in the current DOL fiduciary rules.

The debate centers on the principle of net neutrality, which requires that Internet service providers move traffic in a non-discriminatory manner based on the desires of Internet users.

But there's a difference between violating «the principle of net neutrality» and violating the FCC's specific rules, which have exceptions to the throttling ban and allow for case - by - case judgments.

More important to the executives at the show will be the question of net neutrality, including whether carriers can offer consumers streaming music or video that doesn't count against monthly data limits — which could give their in - house services or those of partners an edge over rivals.

John Legere is not pleased with how critics have responded to his company's BingeOn service, which purportedly lets users stream videos from sites like Hulu and Netflix without using up their data plan — and threatens net neutrality.

In a classic case of too little, too late, a few Lutheran heroes, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, could not make up for the wider Lutheran response to the threat of Nazism — which ranged from outright exuberance to strategic collaboration to vague neutrality.

One was the pacifist and neutrality group which wanted to remain out of the war.

Premier Markus Söder has denied that the law, which comes into effect on 1st June, ignores constitutional rules on religious neutrality.

At the same time, they insist that the function of the state is to guarantee the conditions in which good lives can be realized, a purpose that can not be served by neutrality.

The time has come for the Church to restate boldly and unequivocally that the Way, the Truth and the Life have all been revealed, that the Kingdom is here already and that the battle in which there can be no neutrality is on.

Hotbeds of intolerance, they deny academic freedom to their staffs and engage in censorship of what their pupils may read or discuss, unlike public schools, which practice a careful neutrality and respect toward all opinions.

This does not mean that there is a point at which accommodation and neutrality converge (although there may be); it means only that as time and cases go by, the state - centeredness of what we are bold to call religious freedom is more and more apparent, and the pressure on religionists to conform to the expectations of others grows and grows, with the inevitable complicity of the judges who supposedly protect religion's «right» to be free.

The study of religions which as an academic discipline developed quite quickly during the twentieth century stressed the need for neutrality and impartiality.

Hartshorne's discovery that his own position is the «golden mean» in his scheme of possibilities does not necessarily indicate the rigorous neutrality of his reasoning; it may simply show that his scheme embodies the considerations which are most crucial for his particular vision of God.

Franky Schaeffer decries neutrality as a «myth» which results in a freedom from religion and the exclusion of all those who operate on the basis of religious convictions from involvement in public life (Time for Anger, pp. 19 - 20).

The Supreme Court gave a boost to their conviction that secularism is a genuine competing faith in the ruling in the 1961 Torcaso case, in which «Secular Humanism» was identified as a religion, and in Justice Potter Stewart's dissent in the 1963 Schempp case, which referred to a refusal to permit religious exercises in schools as not «the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.»

I'm not sure if you meant that your personal beliefs are side B, but you want the ministry to be neutral (which I would have great respect for) or that your personal opinion is one of neutrality, but the ministry is a firm side B (which could be rather misleading for people who really do want a safe and unbiased space).

Since God is near, no neutrality before Him is possible, there is no far - off realm in which His claim would not hold.

That faulty diagnosis [that Evangelical progressives are a Fifth Column of sorts in the Democratic Party] seems to be shared in recent speculation that the Stupak amendment — which went beyond the abortion neutrality called for by all the Christian progressives I'm aware of — was added to the House health - care bill as part of a long - standing plan by progressive religious forces.

This means that the whole man is under the necessity of decision; there is no neutrality for him, he has to decide between the only two possibilities which there are for his life, between good and evil.