Sentences with phrase «what citizens access»

Currently, the two countries most known for restricting internet freedom are China and Russia, where the government has notable control over what citizens access and news they consume.

Not exact matches

«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

«We are pleased to see the Obama administration will not cause harm to citizens and states by shutting these businesses down, and hope this will lead to an expansion of sensible policies related to marijuana, such as allowing these businesses access to banking, and taxing them at a fair rate,» said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a Washington, D.C. - based trade group that represents what it says are the thousands of firms involved in marijuana production and sales.

Still, we should not discount the significance of what Citizens United meant for independent expenditures, something that Justice John Paul Stevens argued comes close to direct contributions: «The difference between selling a vote and selling access is a matter of degree, not kind and selling access is not qualitatively different from giving special preference to those who spent money on one's behalf.»

What would the citizens pleasure be to have money and lack access to water a basic necessity of life?

Just as the telephone companies can not now referee your phone conversations, the owners of broadband Internet lines should not be allowed to interfere with what online content citizens have access to.

One such challenge is that of censorship; in a lot of developing countries, or even in some developed countries — especially in Asia, censorship is a big issue; the government is very involved in what citizens can access, and this especially concerns what information their citizens can consume and learn.

«We care about test scores as a way to measure whether kids are on the right track today, but what we ultimately care about is kids being happy and healthy, being good citizens and having access to good jobs,» said Taylor.

The more and better educated we all are about what is currently available to citizens, the more we can do to grow expanded equity and access for kids,» said Center for Education Reform President Jeanne Allen.

At what point will citizens value access to books enough to continue supporting the stores, regardless of pricing, driving distances, and sheer convenience?

«This is a path breaking step that will ensure that as ebook readership grows our citizens can enjoy access to books akin to what the library has always provided,» says New York Public Library President Tony Marx.

What's not to like about an organization that is both centered on the most important form of journalism — investigative reports with «moral force» — and agile enough to be hiring an «engagement reporter» and to build innovative online tools like Electionland, which used citizen reports to home in on potential problems with ballot access?

This access was later enshrined in the form of citizen suit provisions written into many of the environmental laws passed in the 1970s (legal scholars have long disagreed as to the whether and to what extent the ’65 decision influenced the crafting of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969).

As The World Toilet Queue project points out, politicians from across the globe will gather in Washington DC on 23 April 2010, at the first ever High - Level Meeting on Sanitation and Water to discuss what they need to do to fulfill some of the most basic rights of the world's citizens - access to a safe toilet and clean water.

China is well - known for its «Great Firewall of China» that since 2003 has prevented its citizens from accessing what it deems to be undesirable sites on the Internet.

Continuing the Challenge of Court Funding «Of course, my first priority is to continue to work together to ensure full and fair funding of the courts so that our citizens have equal access to justice no matter where they live or what they do for a living,» Pariente said.

Whereas it is right to say that all racial distinctions are arbitrary and should not impede access to what is normally available to the citizen, freedom of religious belief and expression is also a human right.

But I'll be back, and I suggest you, too, persevere, because, if, as ReadWriteWeb opines, even the U.S. government open access data initiative data.gov has whole lot to learn from the Brits, our government desperately needs to see how those who «get it» are engaging their citizens; and our informed readers need to do what they can to cause it to get it, too.

And I do not believe that it is what Canadian citizens are asking for when they trust the courts to dispense justice, keep order and enable access to justice for those who would advocate for themselves.

(A more pertinent question might be what proportion of the access requests directly involve EU citizens» data?)

«As essential community providers, we understand firsthand what happens when patients can not access the preventive services they need,» said Lynda Sampson, chair of the MA Family Planning Association and director of Family Planning at Citizens for Citizens, Inc. «Not only do these cuts deprive low - income women the ability to access the basic health care they need and deserve, these cuts are counter to Governor Baker's goal to reduce government spending.»