Original: The Supreme Court will decide whether free speech rights are more important than helping parents
keep violent material away from children.
Revision: The Supreme Court has decided that free speech rights are more important than helping parents
keep violent material away from children.
What is most revealed by framing the same information about the Supreme Court case in a different tense?
an assumption that free speech rights are superior to parents' right to keep violent material away from children

an assumption that the decision could have resulted in the further eroding of free speech rights to citizens

an inaccurate conclusion that keeping violent material away from children will be of benefit to them as well as to parents and society

an emotional appeal to readers by using negatively charged words to describe material that parents would want to keep away from
children

" The Supreme Court has decided that free speech rights are more important than helping parents keep violent material away from children." In this version, the present perfect has been used, so the focus has been set on the effect of the action denoted by the verb: to decide. The decicion has been made : free speech is more important than helping parents . The original sentences uses the future, so it has not set the focus on a final decision but on the probabilties of making that decision. It is a speculative idea, therefore a decision against freedon of speech may be made.