Sentence examples for ban speech from inspiring English sources
It reasoned that, because drugs are so uniquely harmful to children, a school can ban speech that advocates illegal drug use.
In the 1986 case Bethel School District vs. Fraser, the Supreme Court ruled that public school administrators have the right to ban speech that is lewd or vulgar.
Expression is a right that should be limited only when absolutely necessary, such as when we ban speech that exhorts others to commit crimes.
He said he backed an amendment by the Family First senator Bob Day to continue to ban speech that "intimidates or humiliates" people on the basis of their race but not if they are offended or insulted.
But Macdonald disputed the reach of the new legislation: "It would seem to be a grave mistake for universities to collude in any way in the closing down of discussion, or to indulge a government that wants them to regulate, or even to ban, speech on campus that isn't otherwise remotely criminal".
To ban speech for this reason, i.e., for the good of the speaker, tends to undermine the basic right to free speech in the first place.
"What's surprising is that in an era of safe spaces where students get out of classes or ban speeches because of diverse opinions and words, a college paper in Texas can run this savage call to violence," he said.
After zipping his mouth in Beijing last November, he delivered his banned speech three months later in Hong Kong.
Removing the words would leave in place the parts of the provision banning speech that humiliates or intimidates a person based on race.
They may be considered blasphemous by some, but banning speech based on criticism or so-called defamation of religion is incompatible with international human rights standards.
Under the European Convention on Human Rights, freedom of expression is subject to a wide range of possible restrictions, including national laws banning speech likely to incite or "stir up" hatred against people on the basis of race, ethnic origin, religion or sexual orientation.
