Sentences with phrase «over free expression»

Learn how heavy fines encourage the use of not - so - smart filters that can silence free speech, and how murky definitions of «harmful content» give social media companies unprecedented control over free expression.

[199] In Dagenais, Lamer C.J. struck down the common law rule governing publication bans which emphasize the right of a fair trial over the free expression interests of those affected by the ban, saying that the balance that rule struck was inconsistent with the principles of the Charter, in particular the equal status given to section 2 (b) and 11 (d) of the Charter.

Disputes over free expression in the arts have always loomed as struggles between creativity and repression, transgression and outrage, candor and hypocrisy.

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But having written elsewhere about the global mobilizations over insults supposed to have been delivered Muhammad, from the publication of The Satanic Verses to Danish cartoons of the Prophet, I want to focus here on the politics of those who defend free expression against such «theological» challenges.

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One decided that the high school student's right to free expression was violated and that school officials» authority over students» off - campus speech was limited; the other, that the school had the right to discipline the student and that it made no difference that the student's speech originated off campus.

The substance of the cases brought before the courts has also varied over time, with protest and free expression cases decreasing markedly through 1992 (see Figure 2a).

Protests by Duncan, S.C., students who displayed Confederate flags at their high school in defiance of school policy resulted this month in dozens of suspensions and a debate over free speech and racially charged expression.

Parts of the Liberal Democrat leader's speech had been heavily trailed in the media for several days, particularly his expression of differences with the Conservatives over free schools, which are state - funded but autonomous.

Guided by notions that art matters, that artists» voices are important in shaping society, and that public spaces are places or creative and free expression, Creative Time has been collaborating with thousands of artists to present the most innovative art in the public realm over the past four decades.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

Rodriguez argues voting is a form of expression to which all Canadian citizens over the age of 18 are entitled, and so not being able to explicitly bemoan the electoral options on offer infringes on the charter right to free expression.

The government does not actively restrict the free expression of Indigenous culture; Aboriginal political organizations are recognized and funded; Aboriginal bands and Inuit organizations have taken over responsibility for some government program administration; residential schools and missionary teachers have given way to a mixed system of federal, provincial and Aboriginal / Inuit - run schools funded by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (AANDC); and the paternalistic role of Aboriginal agents and bureaucrats has moved towards a technical and professional role.

v. Law Society of B.C. reviewed the disciplinary activity of the law society in B.C. over advertising practices, and emphasized the distinctions between the freedom of expression with the elective process in our democratic institutions, and that of economic free speech,

In a legal battle over Internet music storage that could impact innovation and free expression on the Internet EFF Public Knowledge and other public interest groups asked a federal judge in an amicus brief to protect the «safe harbor» rules for online content in EMI v. MP3Tunes.

While Congress dithers over patent reform, the EFF is taking action against the software patents it considers are suppressing noncommercial and small - business innovation or limiting free expression online.

In 2016 we witnessed the latest stretch in an ongoing struggle over the shape of copyright law and who it serves - between a law that respects and promotes innovation and free expression, and one that only serves the interests of large copyright holders.

Although the battles over copyright law and free expression are expected to drag through the international court systems, the most efficient way to fight piracy is through the distribution system, maintained Eli Dourado, director of the Technology Policy Program at George Mason University's Mercatus Center.

«It's disturbing to see the court issuing a decision that tramples over users» freedom to communicate securely and the role of the Internet as a place for free expression,» she told the E-Commerce Times.