Sentence examples for speech crime from inspiring English sources
The phrase "speech crime" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to an offense against language or speech that is illegal or punishable by law such as hate speech. For example: "Hate speech is a speech crime that is punishable by law in many countries."
No, I think there should be no such thing as a speech crime.
The free speech tradition dating back to Milton's Areopagitica, if not earlier, was so rich that one had to be "disturbing the King's Peace" for a speech crime to take place, or to be proven (a very high bar) to have committed sedition or blasphemy.
Of course there was a genocide of the Armenians and it is both stupid and nasty of the Turkish government to deny it, and the provisions of the Turkish constitution which make it a speech crime to refer to this historical fact should be a serious obstacle to their accession to the EU.
Importantly, "speech crimes" should be abolished, he wrote.
Patten also decried recent controversies over free speech on campuses, saying: "Because we value tolerance, we have to listen to people who shout – at a university, mark you – about speech crimes and 'no-platforming'.
Although the crimes I have been charged with on the two occasions are different in name, their real substance is basically the same--both are speech crimes.
Hate-speech crimes, and offences under blasphemy, sexual equality, defamation or racial abuse laws vary around the world.
Many Americans have recently been puzzled or even troubled by the French government's aggressive pursuit of what are sometimes called "hate-speech" crimes, particularly because it seems hypocritical or inconsistent after the national outpouring of emotion following the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
On Monday Cameron will make a major speech on crime.
In his first speech on crime since becoming prime minister, Cameron is to call on Monday for tougher sentencing and more rehabilitation.
I believe that Longfellow, who had once written to Sumner of his speech "The Crime Against Kansas" that "at last the spirit of the North is aroused," wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" to rouse northerners from their slumber.
