Category Archives: Free Speech

19-01-2012 07:12 It was hard to miss the signs of online protest Wednesday. Popular sites like Wikipedia shut down, and while Google users could still search, they saw a big black bar over the Google logo, suggesting some in Washington DC are trying to censor the internet

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Would Laws Protect Companies Or Merely Block Free Speech? - Video

18-01-2012 17:10 PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement." http://www.dailydisruption.com

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SOPA Versus Free Speech - Video

19-12-2011 21:28 **I don't like that this happened either but give it thumbs up, not down** Dec-18-2011 ~ This priest, Father Nathan Monk, was upset that citizens were removed for making comments that city counsel did not like. The citizens were upset about new anti-homeless policies and they drew similarities to Nazi practices

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Pensacola City priest threatened with arrest over free speech! - Video

01-12-2011 12:14 Let Your Voice Be Heard #FreeSpeechMatters

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Penguin Presents: Authors Stand Up for Free Speech - Video

28-09-2011 17:42 There have been many threats to the First Amendment in America. It seems that there are conditions on when free speech can be utilized and some cases have reached the Supreme Court. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, tells us when free speech is and isn't free.

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Free speech under fire - Video

28-09-2011 17:59 So where is the line drawn on freedom of speech here in the US?

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Free Speech Has a Price - Video

11-01-2012 17:37 Tennessee seems to think so. http://www.capitol.tn.gov

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Bullying is Free Speech? - Video

03-01-2012 09:33 To kick off its 100th Anniversary year, The City Club of Cleveland held a day-long Conference on Free Speech at the Allen Theatre on October 10, 2011.

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COFS - Free Speech in the Age of the Internet (10-10-11) - Video

27-11-2011 22:07 So, basically, if you happen upon a group of people with signs, and you decide that you like what they are saying and wish to join in the protest, you don't technically get your full 3 hours of free speech per unspecified amount of time. I wasn't messing around when I said I had never met some of the people who joined us. One of them saw that we were evicted from the Capitol yesterday, and showed up at the very end of our allotted 3 hours of free speech time, and was told she was part of our "event" and that she would be ticketed and could risk arrest if she didn't leave

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Your allotted amount of free speech has expired! - Video

24-12-2011 15:02 Win up to $500 in prizes on the new Prizes.org for the best tweet promoting this video! Enter at prizes.org This video, which features an interview with legendary author Neil Gaiman, is a lighthearted look at how the University of Wisconsin--Stout backed down from its censorship of Professor James Miller's posters, one featuring a quote from the science fiction show Firefly, and the other condemning fascism. Stout stood by its actions until FIRE's advocacy campaign on Miller's behalf inspired Gaiman, along with Firefly actors Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin, to take to Twitter to encourage their millions of followers to contact the university with their support of free speech. Music by audionautix.com.

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Don't Mess with Firefly! How SciFi Fans Made a Campus Safe for Free Speech (feat. Neil Gaiman) - Video