The ideal and limits of free speech and expression, and also the free access to information, as well as the various legal and extra-legal attempts at limiting that civil right. Censorship includes not only government actions against any media, published or not, but also the active suppression of such media by mainstream outlets. Unless a report is on free speech and/or censorship in general, it has been categorized in the subcategory of the country discussed.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 30, 1998
Lexi Baugher, ad manager for The California Tech at California Institute of Technology, called to say The Tech would run the ad. On the 14th we discussed the layout of the ad by telephone and it was set to go on the 18th. I then received an e-mail message from their business manager: Dear Mr….
By Paul Lavin ∙ September 7, 1998
When you drop an envelope in a red pillar-box, you walk away confident that your mail will not be read by anyone except the addressee. However, when you send an email, it might be wise to reflect on the differences. According to the organisation Internet Freedom, an agreement being negotiated between the UK's internet service…
By Claus Nordbruch ∙ December 15, 1999
Claus Nordbruch is the author of two books on freedom of expression in today’s Germany: Sind Gedanken noch frei? Zensur in Deutschland (“Still Free to Think?: Censorship in Germany”), published in 1998 by Universitas (Munich), and Der Vefassungsschutz: Organisation, Spitzel, Skandale (Tübingen: Hohenrain, 1999). Dr. Nordbruch lives in Pretoria, South Africa. This essay is translated…
By Barry Steinhardt ∙ July 22, 1998
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:34:01 -0500To: [email protected]From: Dave Farber [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 21, 1998 CONTACTS: Barry Steinhardt, EFF President, 212 549 2508, E-mail [email protected] Alexander Fowler, EFF Director of Public Affairs, 202 462 5826, E-mail [email protected] Electronic Frontier Foundation Reacts to Senate Passage of Two Internet Filtering Bills Statement of Barry Steinhardt President…
By David Thomas ∙ January 1, 1998
A dejected subscriber is printed and processed for banishment after being caught using one of AOL's forbidden words, “breast”, on-line. Cyber Police scoffed at his plaintive insistence that he was trying to say “beast” and that he “never could spell too good noway.” “A likely goddamned story!” they sniffed. “These animals will say anything to…
By Hellen Keller ∙ January 1, 1998
Observations on verbal violence and the Usenet newsgroup alt.revisionism, with hints for potential participants Violence in speech does lead to violent action, as witnessed by the recent death of Yitzhak Rabin and its lengthy, ugly prelude of verbal excoriation of the basest sort. Yet many are those who rabidly maintain that the moral content of…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 5, 1998
Certified True CopyReference no. 8430 Cs 112 Js 11637/96 Mr. Carlos Whitlock PORTERNiveze Bas, no. 112,B-4845 SART LEZ SPA Belgium [stamp: Effective as of:Munich,Clerk of the Court] Born on 06.03.1947 in Pasadena/United States of America, stateless. Order of Punishment Inquiries of the State Prosecutor's Office have revealed the following: In August 1996, with intent to…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 5, 1998
What would happen in an American criminal court if you asked for a new trial date on the grounds that you had previously been unable to appear due to radiation burns suffered while experimenting with an atomic bomb? If you were on trial for murder, a psychiatric examination would most certainly be ordered. In any…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 5, 1998
On 5 December 1997, the court rejected the defendant's defence of justified absence due to pedal-driven brain-bashing machine induced injuries, partly on the grounds that he had failed to specify the exact date of his injury! How stupid can you get? He was given one week in which to object, in German. Translation of Judgment…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 5, 1998
Mail-Order Justice: Punishment First, Trial Afterwards Reply to Lower District Court Subpoena – Revisionism Translation of Judgement: Revisonism, Failure toAppear Opinion of German Defence Attorney Answer to Subpoena of May 22, 1997 Replies to Subpoena of 22 August 1997 Replies to Court Judgement of 23 October 1997 Holocaust Museum of Stupidity – Now Opening at…
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