free speech issues

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8033319.stm Hatemongers go home. Is it right to ban people from a country on the grounds they espouse/promote unpopular views?

Recently the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the latest in a series of challenges to the application of the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act (or, as I've taken to calling it, Johnny McCain's Magical Muzzle). Not...

"We're going to blow up the "n-words" in the White House and the Sears Tower" In light of the free speech argumentations, I honestly would like to know if I am allowed to spread pamphlets saying something like "We're going to blow up the n-words in the White House and the Sears Tower, send us...

I've recently been reading a few threads that have touched on free-speech and several Members have been arguing that the various "hate speech" laws throughout the world are wrong because they limit freedom of speech, but it would seem that most agree the old chestnut of not being allowed to...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7842344.stm Speaking out against Islamic hatred is dangerous work in the Netherlands. Not only might you be murdered in the streets (as Theo van Gogh was), but there's the additional hazard that your own government might prosecute you.

(I'm posting this in Social Issues and Current Events since the issue is not about the content of religion itself, but whether those who are not religious should be subject to the demands of religion, and whether the UN should be the means to impose those restrictions.) According to the...

Link with photo of the billboard. "PWC" = Prince William County, which over the last year has enacted some tough ordinances aimed at illegals. It appears there's no law in Manassas, Virginia, that prohibits putting up a billboard on your private property. I guess you could say that the answer...

This man was sentenced to jail for 1 year because the object of his cartoons were Jews. The neocons, the israeli lobby, judeo-christians and others who condemned muslims over the Mohammed cartoons in Denmark have nothing to say about this outrageous attack on freedom of expression -...

Link 10 cops? That's one dangerous cartoonist!

From here: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2243805,00.html "Violence fear over Islam film" Without getting into everything right off, can someone please tell me the following from other sources: (1) Is this quote accurate? (2) If so, does this quote actually represent...

Wordpress.com, which hosts over a million blogs on all kinds of subjects, has now been blocked throughout Turkey. This is because, it seems, one Wordpress blogger rashly dared to question Islamic Creationism, with the result that a Creationist took him to court and, incredibly, got the backing...

I've been grappling with a simple dilema -- How do you balance a love for the freedom of speech with a skeptical outlook toward cults and religions that infringe upon people's rights? I'm specifically thinking about scientology in that their response to criticism is intimidation and...

I was not motivated until I saw The Dixie Chicks on Oprah. How would the Dixie Chicks respond to these statements? Freedom of speech is not free. It is a privilege, not a right. It was earned. The very sort of people whom The Dixie Chicks have offended and their families earned it...

Well, after all of the steadfast denial about the horrible abrogation of our basic free speech and free press rights represented by the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (aka McCain-Feingold), and after the Supreme Court ruling that ordinary schmoes don't have the same free press rights as NBC...