Directory of Free Speech Resources

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This category is for sites about free speech as a human right, as well as sites documenting suppression of that right by governments, and webpages about the controversies on what legal restraints on free speech are necessary.

Subcategories

• Artistic Expression
• Book Banning
• Censorship
• Flag Desecration
• Political Correctness
• Whistleblowing

Resources in This Category

• American Civil Liberties Union - Free Speech

  https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech
  Links to issues such as censorship, campaign finance reform, commercial speech, and flag desecration.

• AskMen.com : Freedom of Speech in Sports

  http://www.askmen.com/sports/fanatic/fanatic7.html
  Article discusses pro baseball player John Rocker's inflammatory racist statements and his right to freedom of expression.

• Atheism and Intraorganizational Free Speech (1996)

  http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/free_speech.html
  Michael Martin argues that atheistic organizations should generally allow their members to criticize them.

• Charlton Heston and Political Correctness

  http://mizai.tripod.com/index.html
  Speech to the Harvard Law School Forum February 16, 1999 on the idea that political correctness is invading our freedom of thought and speech.

• College Freedom

  http://collegefreedom.blogspot.com/
  Blog covering academic freedom, including free speech, freedom of the college press, and current controversies in higher education.

• Free Speech Movement Archives

  http://www.fsm-a.org/
  Documents, photos, and essays on the events of the 1964 movement in Berkeley. With updates and reunions.

• Freedom of Expression - Freedom Magazine

  http://30th.freedommag.org/page29.htm
  Perhaps the most essential right is that of communication. Without the freedom to communicate, other rights deteriorate.

• International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)

  http://www.ifex.org/
  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

  http://motherjones.com/politics/1999/07/low-power-people
  Small groups, nonprofits and individuals might get low power FM radio stations.

• New Age of Falsification ?

  http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/photo.htm
  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

  http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2000/0600.html
  Twenty-six Hundred dot com pages on challenges to their free speech on hacking computers.

• Rice University Spin Control

  http://www.houstonpress.com/news/spin-control-6562439
  A long Houston Press story about the administrative coup d'état that closed down 91.7 FM, KTRU Houston, a college radio station.

• The Freedom Forum

  http://www.newseuminstitute.org/freedom-forum/
  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.

• There Is 'No Constitutional Protected Right' of Freedom of Speech

  http://www.udarrell.com/constitutional_freedom_speech_press.html
  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

  http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2000/09/22/1991.php
  Reports that nine alternative media members were arrested during peaceful protests at the National Association of Broadcaster's convention in San Francisco.

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