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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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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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Harvard Law Reviews WikiLeaks Censorship | GroundReport - 1 views

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    Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler is about to release a comprehensive study on the U.S. government and media's role in censoring WikiLeaks. The forthcoming report , to appear in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, titled "A Free Irresponsible Press: WikiLeaks and the Batter over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate." In the report, Benkler dissects the mechanisms that have censored WikiLeaks.
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Speech gets ugly online, but it's still free - 0 views

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    People are seeking support for a federal law that would ban demeaning and mean-spirited comments on memorial sites.
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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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The Artwork Isn't Offensive, but, to Some, the Idea Is - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Local artist in NY isn't allowed to install artwork because of a new ordinance, which was enacted in response to her proposed project:  "The creation and or display within the Village of Greenwood Lake of public art is prohibited."  
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