The breadth of the Communications Decency Acts coverage is wholly unprecedented.... The scope of the CDA is not limited to commercial speech or commercial entities. Its open ended prohibitions embrace all nonprofit entities and individuals posting indecent messages or displaying them on their own computers in the presence of minors. The general, undefined terms 'indecent' and 'patently offensive' cover large amounts of nonpornographic material with serious educational or other value.
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Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.
This is not about a lack of personal responsibility. To create a condition that promotes a disease and then blame those who have it is just patently unfair.
Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.
Patently offensive material is widely disseminated on the Internet, and computer-literate children ... can easily find and retrieve it.
The Communications Decency Act is patently a government-imposed content-based restriction on speech, and the speech at issue, whether denominated 'indecent' or 'patently offensive,' is entitled to constitutional protection.
Here, insofar as there is discrepancy, it is not like the others that are politically neutral, ... Here, it is patently likely to favor one candidate or another.
I think is it is very important that the Iraqi parliament reversed itself, because that decision was patently inappropriate and we made that clear to them,
If this is part of an analysis to review whether or not different training should be deployed, nobody is going to have a problem with that. But if on the other hand the motivation is to punish an officer for actions that were previously approved, I think that process then becomes patently unfair.
Under the Communications Decency Act, a parent allowing her 17 year old to use the family computer to obtain information on the Internet that she, in her parental judgment, deems appropriate could face a lengthy prison term.... Similarly, a parent who sent his 17 year old college freshman information on birth control via e mail could be incarcerated even though neither he, his child, nor anyone in their home community, found the material 'indecent' or 'patently offensive,' if the college towns community thought otherwise. The breadth of this content based restriction of speech imposes an especially heavy burden on the Government to explain why a less restrictive provision would not be as effective as the CDA. It has not done so.
It's patently absurd. You just can't go there.
Regarding Ronald Reagan Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why Because what happened during the 1980s prosperity at home (the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, 'The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc.' The 1980s have been intentionally mischaracterized by slick liberal politicians with the complicity of the mainstream media.
Whilst I agree that dialogue and discussion between members is important, and that members have a vested interest in what's going on in the various teams, I would have thought that it was patently obvious that carrying out this dialogue on such an open forum is naive in the extreme, potentially harmful and reflects badly on the whole club.
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
What Microsoft is doing is patently illegal. Think about it. If you want to build computers, you've got to ask Bill's permission, ... If Bill wanted to triple the price on Windows, what would you do You'd pay you wouldn't have any choice.
This statement is patently absurd on its face. MALDEF seeks to equate its own controversial political agenda with justice for Latinos. ... Without a doubt, skyrocketing litigation costs have come at the expense of programs that should be helping needy and needful Americans.