Sentences with phrase «of censorship laws»

Industrial polluters have gone to great lengths to stifle environmental advocacy, but their expansion of censorship laws has finally crossed a line for some federal judges.

Also, some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

Some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

Not exact matches

Today the Senate passed a bill that will lead to censorship of a broad range of speech and speakers while failing to help law enforcement prosecute criminal traffickers.

This isolation also suited a particular line of approach by the Catholic hierarchy — it facilitated the draconian Irish censorship laws, for example.

This broader form of censorship may be legal, as with laws against obscenity.

Books are very expensive in South Africa, partially due to the censorship laws (a banned person's books are all retroactively contraband) which have made remaindering impossible and partially due to the high cost of importing books.

Why is he a holocaust denier is what should be asked of him on Thursday, not the gift question what do you feel about the holocaust, the latter gives him the opportunity to wax lyrical about censorship laws, the former is question that will get him most hot under the collar.

But now the law has been federally enshrined by the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, otherwise known as the Speech Act and Rory's help is getting serious recognition in the new book, «You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom.»

The legislation, signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on July 30, 2017, bans anonymous use of online messenger applications and prohibits the use of software to allow users to circumvent internet censorship.

RWB also fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom, gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists, and works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.

By moving its service to Hong Kong, where the censorship laws that apply to the rest of China are not enforced, Google has been able to continue providing a service without...

Several high - profile lawsuits have prompted prominent researchers and U.K. groups such as Index on Censorship and Sense about Science to complain that U.K. libel laws — and the high costs of defending a libel action — are forcing researchers and scientific journals to censor or edit academic material.

NAKED singularities and cosmic censorship may sound like lurid terms from the tabloids, but in fact these phrases lie at the heart of a troubling question for modern cosmology: what happens when our known laws of space and time break down, as happens in the final moments of a star collapsing to a point under its own gravity?

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

Speech class topics list including twenty five of the best from art awards and air travel to fashion models and Hippie temporary community gatherings for Censorship in Turkey is regulated by domestic and international legislation, the latter (in theory) taking precedence over domestic law, according to

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The appointment seems a favorable one for the people of Denmark, since the doctor is a man who champions the Age of Enlightenment, a rationalist who carries with him books by Voltaire and Rousseau, doubtless smuggled in despite of Denmark's censorship laws against «radical thinkers.»

Soon, Struensee becomes a favorite of the king to such an extent that he is allowed to propose reformist laws such as abolition of censorship, the banning of torture, vaccinations for all; but for a while the nobles who form the small legislative body resist all changes that would strip them of money and power, turning down the chief executive right and left until the latter grows a pair.

Not Quite Hollywood (R for sexuality, violence, gore, drug use, profanity and graphic nudity) Down Under documentary reveals the untold story of Australia's explosion of «Ozploitation flicks» during the Seventies and Eighties in the wake of the liberalization of the country's oppressive censorship laws.

Given the many millions of dollars of profit that are lost when books, movies and music are stolen online, a bill to stop that sounds like great idea... but many tech companies (like Wikipedia and Google) believe that these particular laws are too broad and that enforcing them would constitute Internet censorship and violate the First Amendment.

Despite the lack of any evidence that comics caused any harm to minors, by 1949 more than 50 cities and towns had banned the sale of comic books through laws or censorship committees.

They do it to make a subsistence wage from their work, retain copyrights, circumvent censorship laws, get books into print within months instead of waiting years, keep their books in print forever instead of a few months, make revisions rapidly, fight political oppression, maintain creative control, get paid in a more timely manner, be able to distribute their works globally, publish highly specialized works that may not prove profitable, and take a chance on making something daringly different.

Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality.

Although the CCCI can not assume responsibility for censorship of content on the internet, any member has the right to lodge a complaint against another member, per the rules of our constitution and by - laws, in which case the CCCI may intervene, and may find it necessary to suspend or expel members who author content with malicious intent, misrepresentation or defamation on ANY publicly available media (including but not limited to internet communications of any kind).

It also might have had a little something to do with Japan's censorship laws and the copious amounts of blood and death in the game.

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The later games were renamed for a wholly different reason: to get around German censorship laws, the game's human cast and some of its alien enemies had been redrawn to look like robots.

However Sony has still suffered with low sales due to the lack of games and it's only now that we are starting to see big games like Warframe and Gravity Rush remastered hit the console, but Sony's big hitters such as Uncharted and Bloodborne are yet to be seen on the console due to censorship laws.

With Nintendo's strict censorship laws in the late 80's, it's easy to see why they wouldn't be called Nazis, yet ironically enough, this game displays one of the most graphic examples of unreserved violence ever caught on 8 - bit.

I have made many studio visits, attended a panel discussion and performance at Beijing University on the issues of art and censorship led by the students of the law department and the heads of art departments from the top art institutes of China.

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I wish to formally register a strong protest at your laws of censorship!

Internet users and reform - oriented media are aggressively pushing the boundaries of censorship, despite the risks of doing so, by advocating for the rule of law and transparency, exposing official wrong - doing, and calling for reforms.

He needs to leave the atmosphere of censorship at the Harvard Law School and join the ranks of free men and women.»

The parody article provoked a firestorm on campus, resulting in the law school's adoption of sexual harassment guidelines that Silverglate describes as an 11 - page censorship code.

Last May, Google appealed what it considers an attempt at extraterritorial law, forcing a kind of censorship on people in other nations.

The expansion of rights for citizens since 2011, elimination of censorship, a new human rights» commission, and a freeing up of the labour laws have all created a markedly improved atmosphere in Burma.

On the prospect of internet content censorship, Lawyer Monthly hears the thoughts of Nicola Mead - Batten, an associate from Cardiff and London based Capital Law, specialising in commercial disputes.

For example, if we guarantee freedom of speech without qualification, will this invalidate some of our laws which deal with obscenity, sedition, defamation, or film censorship?

Though previously undiscussed, implicit in this argument is the assumption that the public has access to communal sites of information exchange in which they are able to freely engage in political and social debate regarding the law without government interference or censorship.

The majority of the Court ultimately overruled the Ontario Court of Appeal, concluding that even when the content of expression is demonstrated to be false, that is not in and of itself, sufficient to justify censorship through criminal law.

«Law and reality in publishing (seldom the same thing) from the author's side of the slush pile, with occasional forays into military affairs, censorship and the First Amendment, legal theory, and anything else that strikes me as interesting.»

It covers key areas of media and access law: access to courts, copyright and trademark, censorship, Internet regulation, invasion of privacy, libel, newsgathering, open records and meetings, and sources and subpoenas.

Media law is in many ways related to intellectual property law, however it also involves matters such as censorship and the tort of defamation.

The principal recommendation of this report is that section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act be repealed so that the censorship of Internet hate speech is dealt with exclusively by the criminal law.

«The blog's description is «Law and reality in publishing — seldom the same thing — from the author's side of the slush pile, with occasional forays into military affairs, censorship and the First Amendment, legal theory, and anything else that strikes me as interesting.»

(3) Lead by example in domestic policy areas, including addressing loose laws on wiretaps, ambiguous oversight of intelligence agencies, shoddy content filtering mechanisms around access to pornography and hate speech, questionable deep packet inspection and data retention practices by internet service providers, and other areas in which Canadian practices provide justification for China's own domestic censorship and surveillance regime.