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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.

Groups of parents are getting together and organizing in their communities to ban books," adds Joan Bertin of the National Coalition Against Censorship. "I think what's happening is once a book is challenged in one town, people on the same wavelength, it will flag that book for them. For example, we've seen three challenges to Sherman Alexie's teen novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, all within the past three months, two in Missouri, one in Montana."

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.