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Italy's Case Against Google Is a Bad Moon Rising

Leslie Harris | Posted 12.17.2009 | Technology

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Italy, User-Generated Content, Internet Service Provider, Law, Youtube, Google, Searching, Technology News

If platforms for expression like YouTube were held responsible for all the content posted by users, then companies would be forced to actively screen all content before it could be posted -- no small feat.

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Iran's Voice Will Be Heard

Josh Shahryar | Posted 12.06.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, 16 Azar, Twitter, Protests, Youtube, Iran, Media, Facebook, World News

As Iranians prepare for protests, the Iranian government has tried to halt the flow of news out of the country. What they can't do, however, is stop thousands supporters from spreading the news via Twitter, Facebook, blogs, MySpace and YouTube.

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Comcast-NBCU Merger is Bad for Democracy

Marvin Ammori | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Campaign Promises, Freedom of Speech, Democracy, Media Consolidation, Comcast NBC, Media News

The merger gives one company enormous control over the speech shaping our lives. Putting so much power in the hands of one company -- and, specifically, its executives -- is dangerous for a democracy.

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Democracy, Human Rights, Us. No Way We're Giving Them Up.

Hagai El-Ad | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Civil Liberties, Equality, Social Justice, Human Rights, Acri, Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Israel, March, World News

A state in which human rights are conditional is no democracy at all, and there is no way we will allow Israel to slide down that slippery slope.

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My Voice

Xiaoda Xiao | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Censorship, Cultural Revolution, Mao, Political Prisoners, Chinese Prison Camps, China, Chinese Prison, Freedom of Speech, Writing, The Cave Man, Prison Camps, Mao Zedong, Books, Chinese Censorship, Books News

Under the strict censorship regulations of the current regime in China, the publication of any literary work that shows signs of penetrating in depth, or exposing the reality of prison life is forbidden.

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Obama's Human Rights Opportunity in Singapore

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Assembly, Apec, Chee Soon Juan, Democracy, Canada, Obama, Autocracy, Defamation, Singapore Democratic Party, Amnesty International, Freedom of Speech, People's Action Party, Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Human Rights, Asean, Freedom of Expression, Harper, World News

Any American president should be horrified by the conditions under which opponents of the regime in Singapore have been harassed. The APEC summit presents an opportunity to set the record straight.

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A Nomad on the Web, Forbidden to Host My Blog in Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Cuba, Angela Schaun, Jose Mauricio Conrado Moreira Da Silva, Leonel Aguiar, Latin American Meeting of Faculties of Social Communication, World News

How I wish Generation Y could have one of the ".cu" domains indicating its origin within this country. I would give my mouse and half another one.

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Student Blogger Shut Down and Sued by Butler University Over Free Speech

Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: College Students, Butler University, Alexander Hamilton, First Amendment, Crime, Bloggers, Jess Zimmerman, Virginia Tech, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Freedom of Speech, University, Internet, College, Virginia Tech Massacre, Censorship, Benjamin Franklin, Media News

Jess Zimmerman is a junior at Butler University. Last year he wrote criticisms of Butler's administration in an anonymous blog. We now have the first case of a university suing a student over online free speech.

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A Journalism Lesson from King Abdullah's University of Science & Technology

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, University, Islam, Al Watan, Education, Newspapers, Research, Kaust, Saudi Arabia, Science, King Abdullah, Jeddah-Saudi-Arabia, Media News, Media, Freedom of Press, Muslim, Journalism, World News, World News

KAUST is the first university in Saudi Arabia to allow a mixed-gender environment. This has triggered a 'showdown' between the press and a senior member of the clergy.

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Interview With Pro-Bono Civil Rights Defense Attorney Paul Hetznecker

Rob Kall | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Arrests, First Amendment, Freedom of the Press, Civil Disobedience, Police Abuse, Inside DC, Politics News

On Monday, October 5, over 60 peace activist, anti Afghan war protesters were arrested in front of the White House. It seems like a good time to publish this interview I did on my Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show a few weeks ago with Paul Hetznecker, who defends protesters as part of his life work.

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Twittering the G20 Iranian Style

Leslie Harris | Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Civil Liberties, Iran, Center for Democracy and Technology, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, State Department, Federal Government of the United States, Free Speech, United State, U.S. Government, Twitter, New York, Pittsburgh, Technology News

In the wake of protests last week at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, the police arrested a self-professed anarchist for using Twitter to coordinate communications among G20 summit protesters.

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"Threat Prayers" Target Of Former Reagan Official's Lawsuit

Dallas Morning News | Diane Jennings | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Dallas Religious Group Lawsuit, Dallas Threat Prayers, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Lawyer Sues Religious Group, Lawyers Sues Threat Prayers, Threat Prayers Lawsuit, Freedom of Religion, Politics News

A former military lawyer who served in the Reagan White House and worked for Ross Perot is suing a Dallas-based religious organization in a case that ...

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Am I Free to Speak?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Freedom of Speech, Supreme Court, Russ Feingold, First Amendment, John McCain, Corporations, Freedomworks, Hillary Clinton, Constitution, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News

We have, for some decades now, been in an era that the framers did not anticipate, in which the reach and influence of money could shape the political landscape like never before.

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Michael Savage: Irrepressible Canary in Freedom's Mineshaft

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Conservative Talk Radio, The Fairness Doctrine, Freedom of Speech, Peter Breggin, Michael Savage, Media News

What if conservatives take over the Congress and the presidency in the future? Do you want to set a precedent for federal control over talk radio and eventually television and the Internet as well?

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Without Freedom of Expression

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Internet, Marc Kielburger, Thailand, Freedom of the Press, Craig Kielburger, Journalism, North Korea Journalists, Press Freedom, Thailand Repression of Freedom of Expression, World News

10 years. That's the length of the sentence that Thai man, Suwicha Thakor, received in April for posting two comments on a website deemed insulting to Thailand's monarchy.

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Chávez's Revolution Will Not Be Criticized

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Otto Gebauer, Francisco Uson, Robert Amsterdam, Brian Nelson, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, The Silence and the Scorpion, Freedom of Speech, Eligio CedeñO, Raul Baduel, Carlos Ortega, Caracas, Coup, April 11, Pedro Carmona, 11a, World News

Brian A. Nelson's new book The Silence and the Scorpion is a must read for anyone seeking to get an unbiased and comprehensive account of the two most controversial days of the Chávez presidency.

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Guns That Talk

Robert Koehler | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Freedom of Speech, First Amendment, Assassination, Racism, Obama, Town Hall Meetings, Guns, Rage, Politics News

We must check our weapons, but not our ideas, as we enter the debate.

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This Is Cuba: We Can't Even Post a Scrap of Paper Saying "Puppies For Sale"

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Freedom of Speech, Cuba, World News

A paper, recently stuck on a wall: "I unblock cell phones," it said, and gave the phone number of the shrewd technician. These little handwritten cards are forbidden in Cuba.

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Iraq Censorship Laws Move Ahead Amidst Fears Of A "Return To Dictatorship"

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Iraq Free Press, Iraq Press, Iraq Freedom of Expression, Iraq Free Speech, Iraq Censorship, Iraq, Iraq Internet, World News

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government has decided to crack down on Internet service providers and ban sites that incite violence or carry pornography, ...

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Scanning the Latest Blog Posts, 233 Years Ago

Louise Mirrer | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Declaration of Independence, Equality, Sean Wilentz, Princeton, Princeton University, Independence Day, Bloggers, Pamphlets, Book-Collecting, Democracy, Fourth of July, Sidney Lapidus, Blogging, Media News

The American Revolution had its own bloggers. They were called pamphleteers and their opinions were pointed, their language was colorful, and their sense of urgency was compelling.

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France Tells Women What Not to Wear

LabourList | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Islam, Women's Rights, Women, Europe, France, Feminism, Burqa, France Burqas, Sarkozy Burqa, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News

There are hundreds of points of action that feminists across Europe would prioritize above banning the burqa, were anyone to actually ask us.

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Iran's Revolution Will Be Twittered (and Blogged and YouTubed and...)

Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Web 2.0, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Freedom of the Press, Twitter, Cyberattacks, Freedom, Democracy, Iran, Iranian Elections, Facebook, Iranian Election, Cyberwar, Media News

Social media hasn't only given Iranians a way to evade censorship and speak out; it has given them a way to mobilize attacks on Ahmadinejad's coalition, attacks that go beyond rallies.

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