"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,

mankind would be no more justified in silencing

that one person than he, if he had the power,

would be justified in silencing mankind."

... John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

 

• Illiberal Europe, by Gerard Alexander



• This is the Moment for Europe to Dismantle Taboos, not Erect them, by Timothy Garton Ash (The Guardian Unlimited)
  
  
• Intellectual Freedom and the Holocaust Controversy, by Bradley R. Smith



• The Censorship Trial of Ernst Zündel (1985), by Bradley R. Smith



• Questions and Answers on the Danish Cartoons and Freedom of Expression: When Speech Offends, by Human Rights Watch



• Return to the Dark Ages, by Jared Taylor



• Freedom for Europe’s Prisoners of Conscience! Irving, Zündel, Rudolf Still in Prison, by Mark Weber
  
  
• How Fahrenheit 451 Trends Threaten Intellectual Freedom, by Richard A. Widmann

• Full text of Telecommunications Act of 1996

• American Civil Liberties Union



• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
  
• Hotlinks: CODOH's links to other pages of interest



• Human Rights Watch: Defending Human Rights Worldwide
  
  
• ThoughtCrimes Archive: The World's largest collection of information on the repression and persecution of revisionists.

• 27 Jan 00 - Forum: Keep Neo-Nazis From Web
  
  
• 25 Jan 00 - British ISPs Crack Down on Hate
  
  
• 06 Nov 98 - New U.S. copyright laws ban Webcasts of many TV, radio programs
  
  
• 07 Sep 98 - Slip-Sliding Away: Where's England's Tom Paine?
  
  
• 27 Apr 98 - VHO Website censored by German Authorities
  
  
• 27 Apr 98 - EFF Reacts To Senate Passage Of Two Internet Filtering Bills
  
  
• 23 Apr 97 - Global Internet Liberty Campaign-Letter to Kohl
  
  
• 26 Feb 97 - German Censors Indict CompuServe Official
  
  
• 12 Jan 97 - Pres. Clinton Attacks "Internet Fringe" Journalist
  
  
• 12 Jan 97 - Text of Attack on the Internet by Clinton's Press Secretary
   
  
• 23 Dec 96 - ERNST ZÜNDEL/ The Zündelsite -- a "telephone"?
  
  
• 22 Dec 96 - Another Whack Against GAK
  
  
• 18 Dec 96 - Criminal Offenders Face Restrictions on Net Use
  
  
• 11 Dec 96 - Bonn Aims To Rein In Lawlessness In Cyberspace
  
  
• 07 Dec 96 - The Conspiracy to Erect an Electronic Curtain, by L.R. Beam
  
  
• 07 Aug 96 - G7 Threat to OnLine Free Speech and Privacy
  
  
• 10 Jul 96 - Congress targets "Hate Speech" on the Internet
  
  
• 18 Jun 96 - French Government Creates Internet Censorship
  
  
• 10 Feb 96 - Wiesenthal Center begins letter Campaign
  
  
• 08 Feb 96 - Clinton Signs Internet Censorship Bill
  
  
• 02 Feb 96 - U Mass mirror site removed
  
  
• 02 Feb 96 - German prosecutors probe AOL
  
  
• 30 Jan 96 - Update on Cyberspace Censorship
  
  
• 27 Jan 96 - Germany's Biggest Net Provider Bans 1,500 Sites
  
  
• 28 Dec 95 - CompuServe Censors Newsgroups
  
  
• 19 Dec 95 - Senator Kennedy on Internet Censorship
  
  
• 15 Dec 95 - Judgement at soc.history.war.world-war-ii
  
  
• 07 Dec 95 - Wiesenthal Center seeks Internet Censorship

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