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Archive for the 'Free Speech' Category

From AVN News:
John Stagliano (aka Buttman) has launched a new Website at DefendOurPorn.org in response to federal obscenity charges filed against him and his company Evil Angel. The site includes news updates, links to media coverage of the case and a ‘Contact Your Congressman’ page.
The full AVN story is here.
The latest updates on the charges […]

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Anti-Gay Texas DA Resigns in Scandal

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Here is another one of those stories that you wouldn’t believe except that you expected it all along. The Texas District Attorney who argued that gays have no right to privacy in their own bedrooms had to resign amid a growing scandal involving racism and sex. Here is a little bit of the article from […]

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Literotica Article from Stanford U.

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Just a quick update to let you know about a cool newspaper article someone sent me a link to. The Stanford Daily is an independent newspaper produced for Stanford University. In the paper a couple of days ago, one of the writers shares her love of Literotica.com. Here is a short excerpt of the article […]

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Court Rules in Favor of Internet Trolls

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

For those of you who are fans of internet message boards — like the Literotica Forums — this article may be of interest:
Anonymous trolls on the Internet are allowed to remain anonymous, a judge in a California appeals court ruled yesterday. Not only that, but they’re allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights and speak […]

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On the free speech front, here is a story that would be funny - if it wasn’t scary - from Virginia:
The manager of an Abercrombie & Fitch store is facing obscenity charges after customers complained to the city about two racy murals that were on display last week in Virginia Beach.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that police […]

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According to various online sources, Scooter Libby (the top aide to the vice president on the United States) published a racy novel called “The Apprentice” in 1996. Some of the content in the novel is raising eyebrows. The NY Daily News reports:
“The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the ‘mound’ of a little girl,” […]

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National Coalition for Sexual Freedom Update

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom has a new press release on the recent online free speech busts:
The Department of Justice is clearly hoping that websites will self-censor or remove their content entirely. Midori, a fetish model and SM educator who teaches classes on bondage, has removed her website, BeautyBound.com, citing fear of obscenity prosecution. […]

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This is a recent quote from a politician who has supported anti-free speech legislation in the past:
“You cannot litigate personal choices and lifestyles.”
Sounds like he has come around and is now against trying legislate morality, right? Great news for supporters of free speech, right? Wrong!
He is only in support of people making their own “personal […]

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To the delight of anti-free speech extremists in the United States, the Chinese government is also involved in a “war on porn”. According to this article, the Chinese government has arrested over 100 people in a sweep of online porn:

China has arrested 101 criminal suspects since police started to crack down on Internet ‘obscenity’ in […]

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Texas Store Clerk Acquitted In Sex Toys Case

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Another story from a land that time forgot:

A store clerk accused of illegally selling adult toys was found not guilty Wednesday.
Jose Escalante was arrested during a raid at the Adult Video Megaplex Houston on June 9. Houston police charged him with obscenity, alleging he was in possession of adult toys with the intent to promote […]

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