NYC AUTHORITY CAN NOW BAN ADS THAT COULD ‘INCITE OR PROVOKE VIOLENCE

The Blaze ^ | September 28, 2012 at 1:49pm | Billy Hallowell

[barmag25]

Full title.

CONSERVATIVE’S ANTI-JIHAD SUBWAY AD LEADS TO NEW POLICIES: NYC AUTHORITY CAN NOW BAN ADS THAT COULD ‘INCITE OR PROVOKE VIOLENCE’

[MNJohnnie]

Ok, then let file complaints against all the various Leftist pro Obama ads because they might incite violence

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Unconstitutional and SCOTUS would hopefully overturn this practice.

[jeffc]

But they will only do so against ads “hurtful” to Islam. Anything that Christians would consider “mean” will be said to “protected under the First Amendment”. Free speech is now dead in NYC.

[V_TWIN]

Here we go................

[Genoa]

or interfere with safe, efficient, and orderly transit operations. . . .

Soon the trains will run as smoothly as they did in Mussolini's day.

[sten]

any images involving the above person can incite me to violent convulsion resulting in projectile vomiting or dry heaving combined with momentary tourette's

it should be banned

[rarestia]

It’s the first cut. Everyone in this country will look at it and say, “oh, that’s just a flesh wound,” and the practice will go on.

It’ll spread to L.A. and Chicago. Then to Miami, Houston, Atlanta.

Before long that “flesh wound” becomes a hemorrhaging gape, and that’s how the socialists take power.

Obama is diligently trying to destroy the first amendment. It’s one of two remaining rights that we have left. The last one will be the hardest, but even with the 2nd, I fear it’ll be too late.

[Uncle Miltie]

Sharia has arrived.

If Muslims will be violent (D’oh!) you can’t say it.

First Amendment be damned.

[Never on my watch]

... the MTA reasonably foresees would incite or provoke violence...

So the Metro Transit Authority, bureaucrats who can't make a train run on time or turn a profit, are now the arbiters of what constitutes free speech. I wonder if they will don black robes when they render their verdict?

[molson209]

All nonmuslims must ride in the back of the bus so as to not offend Muslims

[CondorFlight]

Where’s the ACLU?

[timestax]

bttt

[newgeezer]

First Amendment be damned.

The Constitution is obsolete and irrelevant. SCOTUS is all that matters in today's post-constitutional Amerika.

[Truth29]

So the MTA will ban anything offensive to Islamists and approve attacks on any other religion, and anyone contesting this will have to assemble a pattern over time to prove discriminatory application. It will take time and money to fight the decisions and the attorneys will get rich. Sounds like the usual way to impose de facto censorship.

[timestax]

[Wuli]

so, all one need to do is to claim “the ad caused me to be violent” and by that standard the ad is guilty

were the MTA a private enterprise - it’s not, it’s a government agency - I’d have no problem with them making any advertising rule they want

as a government agency, they must meet the standard that the government cannot abridge freedom of speech, at least not without “just cause” (yelling “fire” in a crowded theater) but, judging in advance how someone might react to an advertisement with violence is always a subjective and political judgement that any U.S. government needs to stay out of

[FlingWingFlyer]

So this means all election campaign posters and signs too? Every time I see an Obama 2012 bumper sticker or sign, I become very “incited” and “provoked”. I don’t suffer fools graciously.

[timestax]