Sentences with phrase «right to free speech if»

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If the federal and state governments come in and slap new regulations and oversight on these companies, it's their own fault for practicing elitist arrogance in an attempt to shape a specific narrative that damages the very fabric of a society where the first amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the rights of free expression and free speech.

If you ask them, I'm pretty sure that most liberal mainstream journalists are against punching conservatives who are peacefully exercising their rights to free speech - and they will probably mean what they say.

Free speech means the right to express yourself even if others disagree with your views.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Corporations are people and have free speech rights, so businesses should be able to deny services to gays because of their beliefs, but if another corporation doesn't want to enter into a business venture because they found out their future partners are anti-gay bigots that is somehow wrong?

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

If I am to have a right to free speech, for example, then I must be empowered to speak and be heard, which means using the power of the state to give me the resources I need and to suppress anything that might disempower me.

Here in the US, we have the freedom of religion and the right to free speech (though people tend to be persecuted if they step too far away from «political correctness» these days.

His actions can be taken as ableist microagressons against slower, smaller, less talented players and if your going to be consistant here his free speech ends where my right to not watch TD dances begins.

If one joins the military or gets a security clearance, they agree to give up their right to free speech, at least on subjects related to their military service or security clearance.

If corporations are made up of people... and international corporations are made up of people from different countries... then how do international corporations have the right to free speech in America, considering that their employees aren't all American citizens?

If Paladino does not step down, as expected, the board will appeal to state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to remove him, forcing her to weigh his opponents» arguments of racism against his First Amendment right to free speech.

My question, if Exxan and GE have the same right to free speech I do as a citizen — why do they pay much lower corporate tax rates?

Under these circumstances it is being examined if the right to free speech is violated in the cyberspace.

And since the plaintiffs had not alleged that they were denied the «basic minimal skills» required to enjoy the right to free speech and to vote, the court said it did not need to determine if the Constitution guaranteed a right to an education that provides such skills.

On that score, it seems to me (not a lawyer, mind you) that it's not a hard call: if she was parking her car on school grounds, then there's little question: she had no broad right to free speech.

As per a related announcement released by the ASBA, this «could have a chilling effect on the free speech rights of school and district officials» throughout the state but also (likely) beyond if this continues to catch on.

Americans of all political preferences would rise up against such tyranny if their rights were squelched by corporations, yet teachers unions have been legally trampling the free - speech rights of teachers throughout our nation for decades through forced dues used to fund their one - sided political agendas.

TrueSceptic@23, if you follow the hyperlink I put in, you'll see that a panel of state Supreme Court judges in the US thought that yes, free speech does include the right to tell lies.

If the speech touches on matters of public concern, then the court balances the employee's right to free speech against the employer's interests in an efficient, disruption - free workplace.

But if he couldn't take the fifth (for example, if he had already been acquitted), your Sixth Amendment right would override his First Amendment right to free speech.

The Court concedes, as indeed it must under our decisions, see Royall v. Virginia, 116 U. S. 572; Thomas v. Collins, 323 U. S. 516, that if denial of the right to speak had been contained in a statute, appellant would have been entitled to flout the law, to exercise his constitutional right to free speech, to make the address on July 2, 1950, and when arrested and tried for violating the statute, to defend on the ground that the law was unconstitutional.

In essence, while the repeal of net neutrality will erode the constitutional right of free speech enshrined in the 1st Amendment, the proposal to privatize regulation, if implemented, would erode the constitutional right of equal protection of the law enshrined in the 14th Amendment.

It seems from the writeup as if judges have to do some pretty active balancing of rights of free speech and freedom from harassment, even by Canadian Charter standards.

So, if you lived somewhere like Iran where not having a blasphemy law was politically impossible to achieve, I'd rather have an imperfect right to free speech that protected non-religious speech, than no right to free speech of any kind.

If someone is accused of a crime in his state and he believes the statute he is being accused of violates one or more of his constitutional rights, say right to travel or free speech.

Justice Ashcroft noted that parliamentary privilege applies even if a Charter right to free speech is infringed.