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ACLU Says Proposed Manchester Social Media Policy Violates Free Speech
Fri, 25 May 2012 09:54:26 -0700
Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Manchester Facebook Page The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut on Friday urged the school board to reject a proposed policy that would regulate professional and personal use of social media sites.
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Collateral damage: news organizations, free speech, and the Internet
Thu, 03 May 2012 03:42:10 -0700
How many more years will need to pass before we can stop calling digitally networked media “new”? After all, this year’s graduating class of students—and most of their generation—have spent their entire news-consuming and producing lives in a digitally networked environment.
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Their definition of “free speech”
Fri, 18 May 2012 19:08:35 -0700
A very serious assertion and if it was made about you, you would be calling a defamation lawyer. And we all know why. Because false smears about a person’s competence are highly damaging and defamation law is supposed to protect ordinary people from this kind of abuse.
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Jailed punk band Pussy Riot pushes free speech limits in Russia
Fri, 25 May 2012 06:51:45 -0700
Here's a quick way to get arrested in modern Russia: Walk into a cathedral wearing a neon mask and carrying a guitar, stand on the pulpit and scream punk songs with lyrics like "Virgin Mary drive Putin away!"
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Jailed punk band pushes free speech limits in Russia
Fri, 25 May 2012 07:07:36 -0700
Here's a quick way to get arrested in modern Russia: Walk into a cathedral wearing a neon mask and carrying a guitar, stand on the pulpit and scream punk songs with lyrics like "Virgin Mary drive Putin away!"
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Punk band tests free-speech limits in Russia
Fri, 25 May 2012 06:46:17 -0700
Here's a quick way to get arrested in modern Russia: Walk into a cathedral wearing a neon mask and carrying a guitar, stand on the pulpit and scream punk songs with lyrics like "Virgin Mary drive Putin away!"
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Cleveland's City Club honors media mogul Ted Turner with free speech award
Sat, 19 May 2012 02:18:19 -0700
Ted Turner is fourth recipient of the Citadel of Free Speech Award.
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Judge overturns free speech law after ACLU suit
Fri, 18 May 2012 09:29:59 -0700
Judge overturns free speech law after ACLU suit By Cimaron Neugebauer The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 18, 2012 10:08AM MDT A federal judge has ruled a Utah law can’t be used to prosecute generally accessible websites that do not label their adult content as “harmful to minors.” U.S. District Judge Dee Benson issued his ruling on Thursday in a lawsuit brought forward by the American Civil ...
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Angola: Protect Free Speech As Youth Activists Attacked
Fri, 25 May 2012 03:26:09 -0700
[AI London] A group of anti-government youth activists including rapper 'Hexplosivo Mental' were attacked, beaten and some hospitalised during a meeting in the Angolan capital Luanda, prompting Amnesty International to call for a full and impartial investigation into the incident.
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Chen touches down to free speech
Sun, 20 May 2012 07:38:11 -0700
NEW YORK: Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal advocate who recently sought refuge in the US embassy in Beijing, arrived in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York, holding the kind of open-air news conference that he could have never imagined while under virtual house arrest in China.
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