The Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit against the city of Phoenix, alleging unconstitutional suppression of free speech. The city censored a set of gun-safety-training advertisements posted under contract by members of the firearms industry.
The ACLU of Florida today filed a legal challenge to an Administrative Order entered by Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr. of the Ninth Judicial Circuit. The Order bans protected speech on the Orange County and Osceola County Courthouse complexes. The ACL
An Australian artist whose anti-burka mural has infuriated left-wing and Islamic activists is vowing that it will stay in place despite death threats, a string of vandalism attacks, a violent weekend protest and a police request to take it down.
Censorship. It isn't appropriate either way - neither side should practice it. And yet, it is happening more and more to many groups. Facebook is rapidly becoming a battleground for this sort of a battle, as is social media with people being able to
Is this a freedom of speech issue, or just more ammunition to heap on the glowing sarcasm and attacks the left is already heaping upon the conservatives and their supporters? Right, Wrong or Just Rude?
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In December 2010, under the direction of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the FBI delivered nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists. Patrick Fitzgera
He joins Sir David to talk about a host of issues, from his personal situation to the role of WikiLeaks as a bastion of transparency, championing the right to reveal government secrets, when it is in the publics' interest
WikiLeaks will release top secret American files concerning Israel in the next six months, its founder Julian Assange disclosed yesterday.
In an excusive interview with Al Jazeera, Assange said only a meagre number of files related to Israel had b
Did he go too far? Is he being persecuted?
About the rape charges – did he? Didn’t he? What’s the latest?
The latest that we have been able to garner about the charges so far is that he was accused....
Ron Paul criticized the U.S. government's efforts to shut down WikiLeaks and attack Julian Assange, and compared the murderous consequences of the government's lies to the fact that not a single life has been lost due to the WikiLeaks revelations.
In April, , writer Nay Phone Latt won the 2010 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith "Freedom to Write" award. The award honors world renowned literary figures. (Figures who have been persecuted and imprisoned for defending "freedom of expression") Unfortunately
WikiLeaks strikes back. Cut us down and the stronger we become: http://twitter.com/search?q=imwikileaks
Here's a big list of wikileaks mirrors: http://bit.ly/h9uoyV
On Saturday 4th December 2010, @Muschelschloss said:
#Update (04.Dec.) Please
The US struck its first blow against WikiLeaks after Amazon.com pulled the plug on hosting the whistleblowing website in reaction to heavy political pressure.
The company announced it was cutting WikiLeaks off yesterday only 24 hours after being c
Montana's Supreme Court has ruled 5-to-1 in favor of a high school valedictorian who claimed her free speech and religious rights were violated.
In 2008, Butte High School officials required Renee Griffith and other outstanding students to turn in
“The boys behind the curtain will try to first implement an ACTA-type bill with “official” congressional legislation approved by both the House and Senate in the U.S. and, absent or failing that, the treaty itself with an executive order; none of wh
A group of teens spotted Sunday evening slapping up stickers along a Bellmore street [including on a lamp post and a Chamber of Commerce sign] could be charged with felonies for posting white supremacist messages and images ....
This is an outstanding link. I commend you! Let me point out that you are in good company in taking on this final frontier of truth dissemination: If you will google world leaders new boldness or misc world notables saying the unsayable you'll see di
There has been a lot of talk recently about NPR's firing of Juan Williams. The Christian Science Monitor reports, “Williams is the latest entry in a growing list of journalists whose employment ended after trying to state their opinions quickly and
"As and for a separate affirmative defense, and in the alternative,
Defendants assert that the allegedly defamatory statements, if made, were protected by qualified or absolute immunity..."
Once the precedent is established that blogs can be licensed the government’s control of the blogosphere will grow in small increments until it can shut us all down by simply requiring and then denying said license.
Yu Jie picked a fight with the Communist Party of China, and if state security forces haul him away in the dark of night, there will be no one to stop them. It's a risk Yu took when he slammed the country's prime minister as shilling for authoritaria
“ In my opinion, SPLC represents state sponsored domestic terrorism. Hopefully this organization will self implode, possibly crushed by the weight of its own self induced paranoia or the result of finding itself on one of its own lists.”
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there's no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.
I figured
FB is now purging all material related to the Tea Party movement, states’ rights and the Gadsden flag. Interesting that a business so utterly dependent on free speech and freedom activists will bitch slap them like this.
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