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10/11/2008
Judge: Firefighters' free-speech rights not violated (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A judge ruled Friday that San Diego city officials did not violate the free-speech rights of four firefighters when they were ordered to participate in last year's gay pride parade in Hillcrest.
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10/14/2008
Gossip Web site sparks free-speech discussion (The Des Moines Register)
Jen Wadella has grown a thick skin when it comes to the Internet.
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10/14/2008
Conservative group is right; free speech is not a political issue (Online Journal)
The Sunbird Conservatives, a student group, put out some pro-McCain literature at a recruiting table at Fresno Pacific University a week ago. Seemed innocent enough. The conservatives weren’t harassing anyone, nor were they blocking any sidewalks.
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10/11/2008
Protester cage makes a mockery of free speech (The Webster University Journal)
They lost their rights. It was a disgrace. Demonstrators were refused their right to free speech at the vice presidential debate on Oct. 2 at Washington University.
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10/14/2008
Gossip Web site sparks free-speech discussion (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)
Jen Wadella has grown a thick skin when it comes to the Internet. The Drake University senior from Overland Park, Kan., is used to the nasty talk she hears while competing in video game tournaments.
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10/11/2008
Judge: Free Speech Not Violated In Pride Case (KGTV San Diego)
The free speech rights of four firefighters were not violated when the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department ordered them to participate in last year's gay pride parade, a judge ruled Friday.
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10/10/2008
UT reverses ban on political signs after dispute about free speech (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By JAY ROOT AUSTIN — Facing a free-speech uproar, the University of Texas backed down Thursday from punishing a sophomore from Mansfield and his cousin who refused to remove political signs from their dormitory window. "I’m pretty thrilled with the decision," Blake Kincaid, 19, said Thursday. "I’m glad the university is willing to hear the voice of the students and take it into consideration." ...
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10/14/2008
Springfield Tenant Says Free Speech Ripped From Her Yard (KSPR Springfield)
A Springfield renter says her landlord won't allow her to keep a campaign sign in her front yard. She claims there's nothing that prohibits that form of expression in her lease.
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10/09/2008
San Francisco Says Smoking Ads Are Not Free Speech (NBC 11 Bay Area)
Lawyers for the city of San Francisco told a federal judge Thursday that the city's ban on cigarette sales by pharmacies has nothing to do with free speech.
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10/13/2008
FCC Clears Free Wireless Broadband (WebProNews)
Free speech issues weren’t enough to knock down FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s push-through of a f ree national wireless Internet initiative , but few were talking about those free speech issue anyway. Neither were T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom AG arguments about signal interference—which is the cry-wolf line of the wireless industry these days; after successful testing in Seattle, free wireless ...
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| American Civil Liberties Union - Free Speech - Links to issues such as censorship, campaign finance reform, commercial speech, and flag desecration.AskMen.com : Freedom of Speech in Sports - Article discusses pro baseball player John Rocker's inflammatory racist statements and his right to freedom of expression.Atheism and Intraorganizational Free Speech (1996) - Michael Martin argues that atheistic organizations should generally allow their members to criticize them.Campaign Against Online Publishers Fails - A lawsuit ends Commodity Futures Trading Commission's campaign against online publishers and software developers. Details case to protect rights of those who offer opinions, analysis, or general information on commodities (like prices) in exchange for compensation.Charlton Heston and Political Correctness - Speech to the Harvard Law School Forum February 16, 1999 on the idea that political correctness is invading our freedom of thought and speech.Free Expression Network - Current news, features and trend analysis in free expression issues in U.S.Free Speech Movement Archives - Documents, photos, and essays on the events of the 1964 movement in Berkeley. With updates and reunions.The Freedom Forum Online - A nonpartisan, international foundation advocating free press and speech rights for all people. Holds conferences, educational activities, publishing, broadcasting, online services, fellowships, partnerships, research and other programs.Freedom of Expression - Freedom Magazine - Perhaps the most essential right is that of communication. Without the freedom to communicate, other rights deteriorate.International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) - Network of free expression groups that monitors violations worldwide. Issues alerts, publishes a weekly newsletter and hosts a searchable alerts online archive.Low Power to the People - Small groups, nonprofits and individuals might get low power FM radio stations.MIT Student Association for Freedom of Expression (SAFE) - SAFE provides links on censorship search engine, arguments against campus political correctness as it affects free speech.New Age of Falsification ? - Nature photographers face a crisis of ethics as digital imaging makes photo fakery easier than ever. Overview in Atlantic Monthly of May, 1998.Off The Hook June 2000 - Twenty-six Hundred dot com pages on challenges to their free speech on hacking computers.Suppression of Dissent - Fosters examination of issues including whistleblowing, free speech, systems of social control and action against suppression.There Is 'No Constitutional Protected Right' of Freedom of Speech - Argues that there is no constitutional right of freedom of speech or of press in America since a person could be defamed, sued or boycotted.U.S. Broadcasters Arrested - Reports that nine alternative media members were arrested during peaceful protests at the National Association of Broadcaster's convention in San Francisco.Whistleblowers Australia - The goal of Whistleblowers Australia (WBA) is to help promote a society in which it is possible to speak out without reprisal about corruption, dangers to the public and other vital social issues, and to help those who speak out in this way to help themselves.Rice University Spin Control - A long Houston Press story about the administrative coup d'état that closed down 91.7 FM, KTRU Houston, a college radio station. (January 11, 2001)
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