Sentences with phrase «on free expression»

There are serious concerns about the kinds of compromises they may confront in the process, and the impact of these compromises on free expression.

The Supreme Court took this view in Buckley v. Valeo (1976) when it struck down limits on campaign expenditures, finding that these involved a direct limitation on free expression.

This was actually, originally, in Canada's criminal code and was used to prosecute a Holocaust denier, Ernst Zündel, in the early 1980s, but the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that it was too much of an infringement on free expression rights.

The Ontario law allows judges to quickly dispose of SLAPP suits if they infringe on free expression rights while causing little real damage to the target of the expression, and are motivated by a desire by the person launching the lawsuit to silence critics.

TL; DR: The answer to «why» is because limits on freedom of expression makes the regime less disliked (your question is confusing cause and effect - the popularity of the regime is a consequence of limits on free expression) and reduces both the effort required to stay in power and the likelihood that it falls out of power.

Instead, CCLA argued that any court orders should be crafted narrowly to avoid needless restrictions on free expression.

monitors, defends and reports on free expression and access to information in Canada and abroad.

It will lead to censorship and a massive chill on free expression, and enables a potentially widespread abuse of power,» said Tom Henheffer, Executive Director of CJFE.

A statement issued by Nana Ato Dadzie and George Loh, lawyers for the three, said the sentence was «harsh and excessive», adding: «We also do not believe that citizens of Ghana ought to be committed to prison for infractions on free expression especially in light of the repeal of the criminal libel law.

Meanwhile, the Global Network Initiative (GNI), a digital free speech and privacy group which counts Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Facebook among its members, said the bill would be used by authoritarian governments to crack down on free expression overseas.

The most overtly political of Almodóvar's works — or at least the ones made in response to specific issues rather than broader comments on free expression and institutions — Excited is set in an airplane with malfunctioning landing gear, doomed to crash sooner or later.

The regents called their resolution a «guidepost» on free expression on campus.

As a curator, I could not hide from these attacks on free expression any more than I could hide from the homophobia and racism

He is also a freelance writer and campaigner on free expression and on arts and immigration issues.

Seems for some folks any reason (including economics) is good reason to trample on free expression.

The judgment is considered one of the most important rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada on free expression under the Charter.

The Alberta Court of Appeal varied the order, held that there were «a number of aspects of over-breadth» in PIPA's impact on free expression, and concluded that the proper remedy was a declaration that the order was unconstitutional (rather than a remedy holding that the statute was unconstitutional).

As a student clinician, Sean engaged in a variety of experiences from teaching seminars on free expression to representing clients pursuing Trademark registrations.

«While it may prove an impossible task and an infringement on free expression to censor all negative expressions of old age, it is important nonetheless that awareness is raised and some efforts exerted to suspend stereotypes and negative age and ageing identities in popular music due to the penetrating effects of melody and lyrics on peoples» mindsets.»

So the correct statement of the question is whether the limits we've imposed on hate speech are a reasonably justied limit on free expression.

But, I note that the court has held that restrictions on free expression can only be justified in the most extreme of cases — e.g., the Whatcott type cases.

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) monitors, defends and reports on free expression and access to information in Canada and abroad.

Somewhat fittingly, it turns out that lawyers for ice cream company Ben and Jerry's have a chilling effect on free expression.

Arguably, instead of alleviating the alleged chill on free expression, Bill 83, if passed, will disturb the current balance between the right to protect ones reputation and freedom of expression, will restrict access to the courts and will result in increased litigation, numerous and costly motions and appeals, and create greater delay in getting to trial, in what is already an overburdened judicial system.

Several international museums have marked this occasion with exhibi - tions on the idealist, utopian, and radical art that proliferated in the 1910s and 20s, before the Marxist experiment went awry and Stalin clamped down on free expression.1 The Art Institute of Chicago's Fall 2017 exhibition, entitled Revoliutsiia!