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Several courts have ruled that you do not have to be professional journalist to be protected by "freedom of the press". Most new stations ask for our pictures and videos of events taking place, in today's society everyone is a journalist.

This article gives both sides when it comes to freedom of the press, specifically dealing with video taping and or recording law enforcement while they are on duty. It also questions that fact that is there any difference between the news media recording something and a by standard recording the same thing.

This is an article about Freedom of Press and the battles reporters are experiencing with police officers in New York. Many reporters are fighting to use their right, but many officers are still preventing them and in some cases hurting reporters to do so.

Describes what censorship is and how it effects are personal rights, mainly are right to freedom of speech and press.

This site tries to defend are internet rights in relation to other personal rights like freedom of speech, press, and religion. This is also trying to stop the censorship issue against the internet.

This article states why the first amendment is as important as it is. Why the freedom of religion should be free, as well as every part of the first amendment. These are rights are taken away daily from all Americans.

This article talks about the rights that come with the first amendment. It explains our freedom of speech, to assemble, to petition, and the freedom of press.

This articles discusses the protest on January 19th of this year and the arrests that were made in an attempt to lower tuition fees. Supposedly, students came from all UC colleges to Riverside in order to protest the ridiculous tuition hikes.

Article concerning the rights of parents to have influence over their children's moral and religious upbringing. The issue specifically covered is a parents right to restrict a child's participation in school activities based on freedom of religious practice.

This is an argument that my partner and I are constantly having, whether or not a parent should apply heavy influence to their child's moral and religious beliefs. I have always felt that a child should be able to be exposed to as many religions as possible, but he feels as though his beliefs should be pressed upon our child. It's a good debate.

CIO - Worries have been steadily growing among European IT leaders that the USA Patriot Act would give the U.S. government unfettered access to their data if stored on the cloud servers of American providers—so much so that Obama administration officials this week held a press conference to quell international concern over the protection of data stored on U.S.

This short article is an update showing that 2.5 million more young adults have health care because of the Affordable Care Act that took effect in September 2010. These numbers will just keep increasing because these young adults can stay on their parents health care plan until they are 26, then afterwards can't be denied.

Gay-rights leaders on Thursday took some of the most direct steps yet to make Maine the seventh state to permit same-sex marriage, as proponents of gay-marriage rights press their case from coast to coast. But in an indication of how controversial the issue remains, several states are considering legislation to roll back gay-marriage rights or further enshrine laws that forbid gay marriage.

The right to freedom of religion is so central to American democracy that it was enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution along with other fundamental rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In order to guarantee an atmosphere of absolute religious liberty, this country's founders also mandated the strict separation of church and state.

This talks about the first amendment, freedom of speech. It tells about how the government intervenes and disrupts this freedom.

Freedom of speech, of the press, of association, of assembly and petition -- this set of guarantees, protected by the First Amendment, comprises what we refer to as freedom of expression. The Supreme Court has written that this freedom is "the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom."

This is a great little article showing how important freedom of speech is. It shows how without have our freedom of speech people couldn't fight for all their other freedoms. 

On September 14th, 2011, author Helle Dale writes about the governments shut down on media coverage of protests and violence in Egypt. The coverage of pivotal moments and abuses in Egypt is an attack on the freedom of expression and freedom of press to provide reliable information around the world.

This article outlines the suppression of personal freedoms during war. Many examples, both current and historical, are given of loss of individual liberties such as censoring the press, un-lawfully detaining prisoners of war, and overriding privacy laws for intelligence gathering.

In this article, Lorna Jaynes expresses her thoughts on gay marriage and polygomy. She thinks that gay marrige should be allowed and that people who are also in favore of making it legal and for those who arn't should keep an open mind to other relationship views like polygomy. The reality show Sister Wives is used as a example in that they are being sued because Kody Brown is "married" to four woman. Their argument is that they are not causing and physical problems for anyone and they are not harming their children in any way so the government should stay out of their presonal lives.

This article is about gay marriage, polygamy, and contracts. If gay couples who are "married" or in a domestic partnership do not get the same benefits as a regular married couple. The author of this article is pressing for gays to have the same rights as everyone else. Moreover, the latest in polygamy in Utah is felt by many to be too much in to another person's business. It is that the state if Utah is 'persecuting citizens for living their religious values.

In California, protesters are fighting to repeal the nation's first law requiring public schools to include prominent gay people and gay rights' milestones in school lessons. Some fear that it would expose young children to "inappropriate" sexual themes, however modern 20th century history often isn't taught until junior year of high school. Proponents of the referendum explain that social studies education covers broad spectrum topics and that those who develop the curriculum would be unlikely to "include the sexual orientation of historical figures unless it is relevant."

Another Net Neutrality website that has a good amount of information on this hot topic

There is a mom in Arizona who wants to be the heaviest ever. She talks about how she is going about to accomplish this. And she talks about the health risks associated with doing this.

With alot of negative press in the news regarding games and teenagers and/or children, this article is one of many that says video games are very good for kids since they stimulate the mind and get the brain functioning.