Sentences with phrase «point of free speech»

That's the whole point of free speech — you are protected in saying what you want without the threat of physical violence.

Not exact matches

Law professor Eugene Volokh, who blogs about free speech issues at the Washington Post, has made the same point in the past to argue that Google's (GOOG) choice of search results are a form of free speech.

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

«This is a great victory for the free speech rights of all North Carolinians, regardless of their point of view on reproductive freedom,» said Chris Brook of the ACLU.

The only point I'm having a bit of trouble with is... «we should protect free speech * no matter what the cost *»

«This was a deeply misguided attempt by the City Council to attack free speech simply because they disagreed with our point of view.

As for your point on free speech... I guess instead of having any rules we should abolish any and all rules... sounds like that is what you want anyway.

You said:» As for your point on free speech... I guess instead of having any rules we should abolish any and all rules... sounds like that is what you want anyway.

Others are of course also free to use emphasis — as we all do in actual speech when making a point — but few choose to do so.

Elsewhere in the speech, May promised control of laws, by leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ); control of immigration, by leaving the single market; rights of EU nationals, despite failing to guarantee at that point that they would not be deported; new trade deals, by leaving the customs union; and free trade with European markets, by pretending that nothing had happened.

Yes, the BP site is infuriating when you consider it in context of the company's overall attempts to minimize the spill and dodge responsibility from the start, but from a free speech point of view, BP has every right to try to put lipstick on that pig.

President Muhammadu Buhari maintained his stand point on the brouhaha associated with the anti social media bill being sponsored by the Senate as he says his administration remains committed to the protection of free speech in keeping with democratic tradition.

At this point I recommend getting a 3ds for good games, or maybe just buying future titles from CD Projekt Red, or some foreign titles from Japan, pretty much the last bastions of sanity and free speech in gaming.

They have free speech, but if they have nothing to contribute to the article, then what's the point of commenting?

Kimmel, who promised the evening's nominee a free Jet Ski (presented a la «Price is Right» by Helen Mirren) for the shortest acceptance speech, also dutifully saluted the Time's Up moment, pointing out the Oscar statuette's ability to keep its hands to itself, as well as its notable lack of a penis.

Given that a recent Washington Post article pointed out that the Supreme Court will soon review whether Texas's rejection of a proposed license plate featuring the Confederate flag violated the free speech rights of the group that wanted the special plates, invite one of the names appearing in the article to participate in a Meet and Greet.

Highly educated Americans are about 24 percentage points more likely than their less educated counterparts to support the free - speech rights of an atheist.

Currently free schools have discretion over what to teach, but in his speech to a school in north London on Thursday, Mr Clegg will ask: «What's the point of having a national curriculum if only a few schools have to teach it?»

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.

Tellingly, Demand's presentation begins with a nod towards Wallinger's facsimile, which as the German artist pragmatically points out, required studio production of great skill and complexity in order to come into existence twice, the second time to reassert its message in a context that permits free speech.

At various points in his speech, the graduates erupted into applause regarding keeping the status quo of free tuition.

As a concept commanding universal support, free speech is in serious retreat, to the point where one of Mann's groupies is happy to argue that, for really important issues like «climate change», free speech has to take a hike.

Otherwise one might think that as with holocaust denial, and hand - wringing about a loss of free speech, you are holding a serious issue like McCarthyism hostage to score points in the climate wars.

Yet when a group of whoever tries to tell us that AGW is a myth, even though the evidence points to the likelihood of it claiming millions, eventually maybe billions of lives and a significant number of other species, if left unchecked, that's... free speech?

At his blog Jottings By An Employer's Lawyer, Michael Fox points to two interesting recent posts that underscore this simple proposition: When at work, you have no right of free speech.

An important foundation of this country's founding is free speech, to a point.

I am a huge supporter of free speech and I don't like censorship at all, however when free speech reaches the point where people and businesses get hurt, there should be a way to put an end to it.

But at what point does protecting a specific group from theoretical acts of violence win out over the right to free speech?

Among those who spoke out against the terrorists and championed the cause of free speech was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — but as some users have pointed out, his company's policies often don't live up to that commitment.

As many Facebook supporters like to point out, the company is a private entity and therefore isn't bound by the First Amendment (which only applies to restrictions on free speech by the government), and it also has a duty to abide by the laws of the countries in which it operates, as Zuckerberg noted in his post.

The point of the gathering should be casual, work - free socializing, so this may not be the best venue for speeches or presentations.