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...Labor Department are on the offensive. Testifying before Congress, FDA commissioner David Kessler said his agency was considering regulating tobacco as a drug. Labor Secretary Robert Reich moved to prohibit smoking in all workplaces, including factories, office buildings, restaurants and schools. Meanwhile Philip Morris, the nation's largest cigarette manufacturer, laid a whopping $10 billion libel suit on ABC television for reporting that cigarette makers deliberately manipulate nicotine levels in cigarettes in order to keep smokers hooked...
Iran has attempted to prohibit the ritual because of its pre-Islamic, "pagan" origins, Chehabi said...
This section would prohibit any from of speech that constitutes harassment "by personal vilification." The section also would ban speech that stigmatizes through remarks or epithets which "unreasonably interfere" with another person's work or academic performance...
...care about the firs Amendment as much as you do," Fallon said. "We can prohibit hate speech in easy cases, but there are hard cases where the circumstances are not that welldefined. The question...
There is no need to prohibit with sanctions even the ugliest of words. After all, they are just words. And selfcensorship and discretion normally prevent most intelligent students from uttering hateful words. When they do not, these students usually suffer rebuke and loss of respect from others. In an intellectual environment, perhaps more than anywhere else, an enormous amount of faith must be placed in people's ability to from the free marketplace of ideas and words. The alternative of censorship is ultimately far more sinister and dangerous words that might be spoken in a university without speech codes...