Results tagged “freedomofspeech”

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too - two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the...

So Bostonist was sitting on a stoop on Newbury Street yesterday afternoon, waiting for some coworkers who foolishly thought they could get to Upper Crust from Government Center faster on the T than we could on our bike. As we soaked in the sun and enjoyed the parade of shopping-bag-laden, wealthy foreigners, we had the additional pleasure of witnessing a drama with three distinctly Bostonian elements: Parking, profanity, and difficult race relations. Allow us to...

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As it turns out, the Supreme Court has said on numerous occasions that governments can impose all sorts of restrictions on citizens' rights to protest. The general rule, dating back to 1941, is that reasonable restrictions on the time, place, and manner of a public protest are OK, so long as they are content-neutral (e.g., pro- and anti-abortion rallies are subject to the same rules) and do not entirely rob a protest of its expressive force (e.g., if abortion protesters were only allowed near clinics when the clinics were closed, or were required to conduct their protests in places where no one would see or hear them).