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Unbelievable article from the CBS News website today about a proposal to ban all books by gay authors from certain libraries in Alabama:
Alabama lawmaker Gerald Allen says homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle. Under his bill, public school libraries could no longer buy new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters. […]
This is just plain bad news for free speech in America:
President George W. Bush told newspaper editors Thursday that he supports extending indecency regulations to cable and satellite TV…”
You expect there to be a few nuts in the government who want to censor everything that Americans read, hear, and see, but when the most powerful […]
Andrea Dworkin, a radical lesbian feminist who was infamous for her idea that “all sex is rape”, has died at the age of 58.
Dworkin fought militantly against all pornography and did not believe in the idea of free speech. She, like many other extremists, believed that free speech was too dangerous for society. She also […]
When will the extremists in our government stop? When everyone who disagrees with them is in jail? When everyone who disagrees with them is “re-educated”? That day might be closer than you think.
This article talks about one right wing congressman who is working to make cursing on the radio a criminal offense, punishable by prison […]
There is an interesting free speech related post over on the Literotica forums today. It starts like this:
Recently I picked up a copy of Penthouse magazine and was completely appalled!!! The magazine was completely void of all the boundary-pushing photography that I had come to enjoy over the last ten years or so.
The poster explains […]
Once again proving that many politicians in the current U.S. government enjoy using the United States Constitution as toilet paper, two extremist anti-American Senators have started pushing for legislation that would outlaw free speech in the U.S. media completely.
Two top U.S. Republican lawmakers on Tuesday said they want to apply broadcast decency standards to cable […]
According to CBS, some of the lyrics to the Robin Williams Oscar’s song that ABC censored were:
“Pinocchio’s had his nose done! Sleeping Beauty is popping pills! The Three Little Pigs ain’t kosher! Betty Boop works Beverly Hills!”
“Fred Flintstone is dyslexic, Jessica Rabbit is really a man, Olive Oyl is really anorexic, and Casper is […]
Perhaps in trying to keep up with their American counterparts (see previous post), the Japanese LDP political party announced yesterday that they want to specifically exclude the right to free speech in the new Japanese constitution. There is a full article on the issue over at Japan Today, but here are some excerpts:
…a subcommittee of […]
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The job […]
Interesting article about Robin Williams partially standing up to extremist religious groups trying to censor his jokes at the Oscars:
Robin Williams gave new meaning to the term “tape delay” at the Academy Awards. Before presenting the award Sunday for best animated feature, he paused to rip a large piece of white tape off his mouth, […]