Sentences with phrase «protected speech because»

But if the Facebook Like is protected speech because it ostensibly communicates «the user's approval... and support» of the person, status or thing liked, as Traxler wrote, then what of liking things sarcastically or in jest, or — to use an example from another social network — of «hate - favoriting» on Twitter?

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Failing to protect free - speech we will find the government becoming like the the Indian government who charge Aseem Trivedi, a political cartoonist, with sedition because... they didn't like the message.

The United States protects the right of free speech because it allows this kind of hateful speech.

Third, free speech ought not be absolutized because the First Amendment basically protects, not the right of the press to speak, but the right of every citizen to know.

«In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group.»

Freedom of speech is protected not because we are all supposed to only say nice things about one another so we aren't forced to be violent, speech is protected precisely because people are often unwilling to hear criticism of things which they hold dear.

So, all of these people believe that people shouldn't be allowed to say insulting things, because free speech doesn't protect it?

Other groups may not experience the same conflict because they do not read the Constitution in the same way — in the way, for example, that makes no moral discrimination among the kinds of speech or the kinds of political factions that the Constitution was meant to protect.

In other words, just because a teaching is from a holy text doesn't protect it from becoming disrespectful speech.

«We're saying that these other lawsuits, once the majority members lawyer figured out that the board couldn't attack him on speech, because it's constitutionally protected, they wanted to gin up these other groups to come after him, to inflame the record, if you will,» Vacco said.

This is crucial to the Friedrichs case because the First Amendment protects against compelled political speech, and the CTA — like many public sector unions — takes mandatory agency fees from nonmembers to cover its collective bargaining costs.

I notice in his many columns on the subject that Steyn never relies on the idea that his speech is protected because it's not factual, but only «opinion» or «hyperbole.»

-LSB-...] I note, and reject, the idea that the First Amendment protects only truthful speech and thus has no application here because climate skepticism is false.

Because the impact of pornography occurs through the mediation of an audience witnessing a performance, rather than an audience receiving physical services from a performer, pornography and its making qualify as First - Amendment protected speech.

It's similar to the theory that we protect speech and speakers we dislike because we want to make sure the speech we like is permitted, and we do nt want government choosing between the two.

Jewel argued that, because its ad did not propose a commercial transaction, it was non-commercial speech protected by the First Amendment.

What you are saying makes no more sense than saying that because state constitutions protect free speech, the constitutional right to free speech «would never come up.»

You state that this is not a first amendment question, apparently because of People v. Boomer, but the case points out that the first amendment does not protect «obscene speech» while the question asks about use of profanity.

There is no categorical prohibition on speaking about terrorism, the brief argues, because «the First Amendment does not permit ad hoc judgments regarding the social value of speech to determine whether that speech is protected.»

Second, it will violate Twitter's First Amendment rights to publish speech about terrorism because the vast majority of such speech is fully protected.

Under that precedent, the rule barring Planned Parenthood providers from the Women's Health Program violates their First Amendment rights to speech and association because it bars their participation in that program due to their constitutionally protected conduct in which they engage using only their own private funds.