viewpoint discrimination

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Viewpoint discrimination is a concept in United States jurisprudence related to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. If a speech act is treated differently by a government entity based on the viewpoint it expresses, this is considered viewpoint discrimination.{{cite journal |last1=Bloom |first1=Lackland H. |title=The Rise of the Viewpoint-Discrimination Principle |journal=SMU Law Review Forum |date=2019 |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=20–40 |doi=10.25172/slrf.72.1.3|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Kelso |first1=R. Randall |title=Clarifying Viewpoint Discrimination In Free Speech Doctrine |date=3 January 2019 |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3360691 |publisher=Social Science Research Network |journal=Indiana Law Review|ssrn=3360691 |language=en}}{{cite journal |title="Giving Offense is a Viewpoint": Supreme Court Holds It Is Viewpoint Discrimination To Deny Trademark Protection For Allegedly Offensive Marks |journal=The National Law Review |url=https://www.natlawreview.com/article/giving-offense-viewpoint-supreme-court-holds-it-viewpoint-discrimination-to-deny |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Hudson |first1=David L. |title=Viewpoint Discrimination |url=https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1028/viewpoint-discrimination |website=www.mtsu.edu |access-date=15 August 2020 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Viewpoint Discrimination in Free Speech Cases |url=https://uscivilliberties.org/themes/4667-viewpoint-discrimination-in-free-speech-cases.html |website=Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in the United States |access-date=15 August 2020 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Boggs |first1=Danny |title=A Differing View on Viewpoint Discrimination |journal=University of Chicago Legal Forum |date=7 December 2015 |volume=1993 |issue=1 |url=http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1993/iss1/4 |issn=0892-5593}}{{cite journal |last1=Post |first1=Robert C. |title=Viewpoint Discrimination and Commercial Speech |journal=Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review |date=2007–2008 |volume=41 |pages=169}}{{cite journal |last1=Douglas |first1=Maura |title=Finding Viewpoint Neutrality in Our Constitutional Constellation |journal=University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law |date=1 January 2018 |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=727 |url=https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jcl/vol20/iss3/5/ |issn=1521-2823}}