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US senator: Domain seizures may violate 1st amendment rights | MyCE - My Consumer Elect... - 0 views

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    Over six months after the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began their "Operation in our Sites" initiative, in which they've seized nearly 100 allegedly copyright infringing web domains without warning or due process, one senator has finally taken notice and begun to question whether the process violates First Amendment free speech rights.
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Whistleblower Suits Do Not Violate 1st Amendment // Pharmalot - 0 views

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    60-day whistleblower case seals do not violate the 1st Amendment, according to 4th Circuit judges.
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Standing room only for GSC artwork panel | AccessNorthGa - 0 views

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    Of course, in discussing how "offensive" the work may be to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the point that the First Amendment protects precisely speech that some people find offensive was somehow missed. And the attorney claiming that the panel was biased against censorship - well, isn't the whole country supposed to be biased against censorship? As in: free speech is part of he constitution! Yes, there are restrictions - but he should know better, these restrictions do not apply to the ideas expressed in a work of art in a gallery - a college gallery to boot.
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Golden Anniversary of Supreme Court ruling protecting anonymous speech - 0 views

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    The Supreme Court ruled more than 50 years ago today that the First Amendment protects a right to anonymous speech. In Talley v. California (1960), the Court ruled in favor of civil rights activist Manuel Talley in a decision that remains a valuable precedent, particularly in the age of Internet and its amplification of anonymous speech.
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The state of censorship, 2011 | The Old Perfessor - 1 views

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    Reflections of a professor at Wingate University, re: Joan Bertin's visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
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Supreme Court and privacy: Its evolving view could hurt the First Amendment. - 0 views

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    Thomas and Alito tend to view the American public and the media largely through the prism of their own confirmation hearings-which they found to be painful and humiliating. They both appear to believe that allowing a camera into a room transforms any event into a "raucous media event" (to use Alito's language from the Westboro Church opinion).
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