Sentence examples for curtail speech from inspiring English sources

Demanding that "the authorities" curtail speech directed against you or your group inevitably weakens the ability of you or your group to assert your own views freely, particularly if they run counter to the views of those same "authorities".

Even Rwanda, a country that because of its history has an entirely legitimate desire to curtail speech that incites hatred, has broadly defined laws that are inhibiting independent journalists from critically covering sensitive topics.

What has happened is that section 18C has been repackaged and now is being sold as having a general clamp on free speech, whereas its actual design was to curtail speech that specifically threatens the delicate fabric of a multi-cultural society – speech that goes to the heart of someone's racial or ethnic identity.

So when we find ourselves wishing for the indictment of a ne'er-do-well like Brutsch, we are in a small but very real way attempting to curtail speech in the same way as a dictator would, though we defend our actions by saying we have just intentions.

A senior Labour MP accuses the Speaker of killing debate by curtailing speeches and of filling the Commons with tour guides and outreach workers, until "it feels like a sort of parliamentary Disneyland-on-Thames".

He goes on to write that social justice warriors, shortened to "SJWs", aim to curtail free speech, particularly the speech of white heterosexual men.

"The commission seems to be taking an unreasonably narrow reading of the law to serves no purpose other than to curtail free speech — in this case, the speech of those who have the audacity to not support the dear leader from San Francisco," Backer told the Center for Public Integrity.

"The Communist party rulers are wrong if they think that imprisoning Chen Kegui will curtail my speech".

Will they, as they have tried in Spain, use legal means to curtail free speech?

He said the internet was the only source of information he trusted.José Ignacio Peralta, the deputy minister for communications, denies there is any attempt to curtail free speech.

"The authorities use sedition laws to curtail free speech and also concoct criminal cases to lock up critics of the government".