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Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Earth Day 2009, Freedom of Speech, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Breaking Media News, Animal Rights, Earth Day, Vegan, Free Speech, Animal Abuse, Green, Gandhi, Media, TV and Animals, Animals, Vegetarianism, Media Bias, Media News

Under the dizzying spell of modernity's promises and consumerism's illusions, we see animals as mere objects, either as commodities for our consumption or as blank slates for us to write our fantasies and fears upon.

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What Is Wrong with the Federal Hate Crime Law?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Crimes, Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Free Speech, Politics News

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and t...

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Remembering the Nazis in Skokie

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: First Amendent, Holocaust, Nazis, Holocaust Survivors, Neo-Nazis, Free Speech, Nazis Skokie Illinois, Skokie Illinois, Politics News

The outcome of the Skokie controversy over 30 years ago was one of the truly great victories for the First Amendment in American history.

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Obama Threw the Ball, Now It's in Raul's Court

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Human Rights, Dissent, Free Speech, Raul Castro, Obama, Free Elections, Cuba, Barack Obama, World News

If the Cuban government doesn't grab the ball, there are thousands of hands ready to take our turn to launch it.

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Porno Teaches Maryland a Valuable Lesson

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pornography, Campus Liberty, University of Maryland, Jamin Raskin, Free Speech, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Senator Harris, Greg Lukianoff, Fire, Politics News

Passing a law singling out college students is not just a waste of legislative time but also fails to recognize that colleges are places where it can be part of someone's job to study "offensive" material.

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Oh, The Humanity! Godless Huffington Post Commenters Wickedly Destroying Conservatism

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Liars, George Bush, Andrew Breitbart, National Review, President Obama, Leftist, Communist, Free Speech, Moral Relativism, Obama, Liberal, Jed Babbin, Cold War, Lunatic Ravings, Republican, Bush, Reality-Based, Internet, Goons, Cold War Is Over, Irony, Dirty Tricks, Vandalism, Irony-Impaired, Rush, Socialist, Moveon, Huffington Post, Limbaugh, Totalitarianism, Ends Justify the Means, Marketplace of Ideas, Boycott, Ideologue, Rush Limbaugh, Blog Readers, Commie, Propaganda, Hugh Hewitt, Conservative, Right Wing, Blog Commenters, Ironically-Challenged, Election, Wicked, Barack Obama, Ironic, Fair Play, Media Matters, Blog, Chris Weigant, Instapundit, Dogma, Humanity, Nixon, Censorship, Breitbart, Crazytown, Crazytalk, Media News

Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.

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The Schools Are Destroying Freedom of Speech

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Civic-Literacy, First Amendment, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, First Ammendment, Speech Ammendment, Constitution, 1st Ammendment, Freedom-of-Speech, Politics News

"The Constitution makes clear there can be no religious test for holding office, and it is just as clear there can be no religious test for individual...

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Foot in Mouth Disease

Kelly van der Kwast | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Islam, Britain, Joas Wagemakers, Terrorism, Kenan Malik, Geert Wilders, Free Speech, Hizbullah, Dr El Moussaoui, London, Dr. Ibrahim El Moussaoui, Csc, Geert Wilders Islam, Ibrahim El Moussaoui, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News

Of course, the Hizbollah terrorist issue is not to be overlooked. But maybe we should deal with that after we give everyone a chance to speak.

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Oklahoma Legislature Investigates Richard Dawkins' Free Speech

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Campus Liberty, Free Speech, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Legislature, Fire, Oklahoma University, Greg Lukianoff, Richard Dawkins, Politics News

Well, it's official: Oklahoma's state legislature is investigating the University of Oklahoma for hosting a speech by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

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Fck Your Mother Ship, Fck Censorship

Disgrasian | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Internet, Grass Mud Horse, Double Entendres, Political Activism, Internet Censorship, Free Speech, Protest, China Internet Access, Chinese Government, Resistance, China Censorship, China Human Rights, Chinese Democracy, Chinese Censorship, China, World News

This is China we're talking about, so the video isn't just funny, punny wordplay. The grass-mud horse video has become a national symbol of resistance to authority and censorship.

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Foreign Press Protects Cubans at "Freelance" Book Launch

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of the Press, Repression and Intimidation, World, Cuba, Politics, Free Speech, World News

After sneaking through the alleys of Cerro to lose the two "securities" who were following us, we managed to present Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo's book.

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Silenced In Sri Lanka: Government Suppresses Journalists As Fighting Grips Nation

GlobalPost.com | Anonymous | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: Sri Lankan Army, Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka Civil War, Sri Lankan Civilians, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Censorship, Sri Lanka Journalists, Free Speech, Sri Lankan Rebels, Asia, World News

As Sri Lanka's decades-long war approaches what is expected to be a gruesome conclusion, the world largely looks elsewhere. This can be blamed on the ...

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Tila Tequila Likes to F*ck...with Free Speech

Disgrasian | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Tila Tequila Copyright Infringement, Creative Commons, Copyright, A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila, Tila Tequila, Bloggers, Free Speech Rights, Free Speech, Tila Tequila Free Speech, Legal Rights, Exploitation, Tila Tequila Censorship, Internet Censorship, Internet Law, Tila Nguyen, Censorship, Fair Use, Media News

It sounds a helluva lot like Tila Tequila believes in censorship. Of the very same medium that made her, which, frankly, we find shockingly ungrateful.

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Do User-Generated Review Sites Sites do More Harm Than Good?

Pauline Millard | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Review Sites, Housing, User-Generated Content, Yelp, Free Speech, Apartments, First Amendment, Real Estate, New York City, Landlords, Rentals, Citizen Journalism, New York City Apartments, Technology, Citizen Journalists, Media News

I would worry about what these sites said about me and how they were monitored. Users post anonymously, and there are no checks and balances to investigate if any of the claims are valid.

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MSU Student Cleared of Charges, but Overzealous Spam Ban Remains

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Spam, Campus Liberty, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Fire, Greg Lukianoff, Michigan State University, Free Speech, College, Computers, Email, Technology, Communication, Media News

Many MSU decision-makers don't have a clear idea of the distinction between the use of university or departmental listservs and the general use of university e-mail accounts.

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Minerva, South Korean Blogger, Charged With Spreading False Info

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: Blogger South Korea, South Korean Blogger, Minerva Charged, South Korea Blogger Lehman Brothers, Free Speech, Minerva, Lehman Brothers, Minerva Arrested, South Korea, South Korea Minerva, Free Press, World News

SEOUL, South Korea — Prosecutors charged a popular South Korean blogger on Thursday with spreading false information that they alleged damaged t...

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The Bush Legacy: Normalizing the Outrageous

Leslie Weise | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu Lawsuit, Aclu, George Bush, Privatize Social Security, 2008, Town Hall Meeting, 401k, Bush Achievements, Social Security, Free Speech, Bush Legacy, Politics News

When I attended a 2008 hearing for the free speech lawsuit in which I'm involved, I was struck by the defendants' arguments, being made on behalf of government officials, as eerily un-American.

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Solutions for Cuba: Let Everyone Speak

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yoani Sanchez, World, Cuba, Pope John Paul II, Politics, Economy, Free Speech, Civil Rights, Politics News

Let everyone speak, no matter whether in complaint or in support of a proposal designed to address the problems.

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Thirteen Civil Liberties Organizations Unite to Fight Michigan State U on 'Spam' Conviction

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Campus Liberty, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Fire, Greg Lukianoff, Michigan State University, Free Speech, Technology, Politics News

MSU's arbitrary limit on the number of people students can contact via e-mail about an issue of public concern... is a serious threat to student and citizen activism.

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Petition to NBC: Stop Helping Coulter Sell Her Books

Ira Forman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media

Read More: National Jewish Democratic Council, Petition, Ann Coulter, Nbc, Freedom of Speech, Stop Coulter, Free Speech, Media News

On "Hannity & Colmes" Ann Coulter revealed that she will appear on NBC's "Today" show on January 6, 2009 to promote her newest book, "Guilty: Liberal ...

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Cuba Cracks Down On Bloggers

Mother Jones | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Generacion Y Cuba, Bloggers, Cuba Censorship, Free Speech, Generation Y Cuba, Yoani Sanchez, Crackdown on Bloggers, Censorship, Havana, Cuba, Generation Y, World News

Havana-based writer Yoani Sanchez was recently named by Time magazine as one the 100 most influential people in the world, and she won the 2008 Ortega...

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It's Raining Spam at Michigan State U

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Campus Liberty, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Michigan State University, Fire, Greg Lukianoff, Free Speech, Email, Msu Spam, Politicians Spam, Politics News

By tomorrow, the country will find out if MSU prefers bullying students with an unconstitutional anti-spam policy to complying with the First Amendment.

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Anonymity Of "Obama Is A Muslim" Emails Constitutionally-Protected?

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Jaynes v Virginia, Mudslinging, First Amendment, Free Speech, Email, Spam, Constitutionally Protected, Obama, Anonymously, Jeremy Jaynes, Federalist Papers, Obama Is a Muslim, Barack Obama, Precedent, Virginia, Constitution, Anonymity, Chris Weigant, Constitutionality, Anonymous, Barack, Political Free Speech, Constitutional Question, Technology, Jaynes Virginia, Publius, Jaynes, Politics News

Emails saying absolutely anything about a candidate could not only be sent anonymously, but whoever sends them would actually be allowed to break any sort of anti-spam laws to do so.

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On January 20, With the Stroke of a Pen, President Obama Can Undo Some of the Damage of the Past Eight Years

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Transition, Reproductive Rights, Free Speech, Guantanamo, Spying, Aclu, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Domestic Violence, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Politics News

Presidents have enormous power to establish policy by executive order, federal regulation, or simply by refocusing the efforts and emphases of the executive agencies.

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A Tale of Two Universities

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 11.30.2008 | Media

My thinking is, if Quinnipiac is going to show such contempt for its own student journalists, journalists around the country should start ignoring their polls.

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