It's not about the system crushing individual expression, but about the power of an individual in the face of forces greater than himself.
Whether it's speech codes on college campuses, anti-blasphemy and anti-hate speech laws in Europe, or so-called victims' rights laws like this one, you can't enforce these laws without crushing free expression and stifling speech.
"With the arrest of this kid, I think the public saw this rumor campaign for what it really is: a devious attempt to crush normal online expression," said Zhou Ze, a lawyer in Beijing who sought to rally public support for Mr. Yang's case through his own account on Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblog service.
The fact is, this is not about children – the law will silence all Russians, straight and gay, by giving the government the tools to crush freedom of expression.
Freedom of expression is being crushed.
These restrictions on liberty crushed other forms of political expression, so that the Islamists — the Muslim Brotherhood and more radical forms of political Islam — became the only real way to voice opposition to Mubarak's reign.
These restrictions on liberty crushed other forms of political expression, so that the Islamists the Muslim Brotherhood and more radical forms of political Islam became the only real way to voice opposition to Mubarak's reign.
But Israel has crushed every form of Palestinian political expression in the city that is more radical than a scout meeting -- and sometimes even scout meetings.
In addition, commercial speech, the offspring of economic self-interest, is a hardy breed of expression that is not "particularly susceptible to being crushed by overbroad regulation". Ibid.
To analyze the protein expression of ZAP-70, thymi and spleens were crushed and cytosolic proteins of T cells were isolated by using the Nuclear Protein Extraction Kit (Panomics).
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand of India, who is also playing in the Candidates this year, is famous for maintaining the same impassive expression whether he's crushing his opponent or being crushed himself.
