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"Guantanamo," now playing in New York, warns that the liberties the U.S. government has taken abroad in the name of homeland security present grave threats to our own civil liberties.
By James P. Pinkerton
October 12, 2004
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Her partner was kidnapped and beheaded. Now, charges Ukrainian journalist Olena Prytula, the government is using the courts to shut down her crusading Web site.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
July 15, 2004
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On the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, blogs are booming in China. But are they making any difference?
By Mat Honan
June 4, 2004
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The government tells the Supreme Court that Web publishers should relax -- a Web censorship law only applies to the "worst" porn peddlers. But why should we trust it?
By Scott Rosenberg
March 3, 2004
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Texas school officials rejected a widely used environmental textbook, claiming it was filled with errors. The author says they're censoring him because they didn't like his green views -- and he's suing.
By Frederick Clarkson
November 5, 2003
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Hundreds of papers might be pulling this Sunday's strip for referring to the health benefits of masturbation. Garry Trudeau talks to Salon about his comic's 32-year history of controversy.
By Sheerly Avni
September 5, 2003
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Teenage movie fans can watch the stars of the execrable "Bad Boys II" leer over a corpse's breasts, but the all-powerful movie ratings board probably won't allow Americans to see the Italian master Bertolucci's new film intact.
By Charles Taylor
September 5, 2003
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Correcting the sin of omission, this company adds extra sex, nudity, profanity or extreme violence to our favorite screen gems.
By Cary Tennis
September 20, 2002
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When Michael Moore's publisher insisted he rewrite his new book to be less critical of President Bush, it took an outraged librarian to get it back in the stores.
By Kera Bolonik
January 7, 2002
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Since Sept. 11, pop culture has been purging itself of anything potentially insensitive. But who decides what "sensitive" is?
By Chris Colin
October 19, 2001
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The Taliban has declared the Internet un-Islamic, but elsewhere in the Muslim world, going online is one way to avoid the censors.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
October 12, 2001
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The death of Vietnam's most famous protest singer -- who was abused by authorities both North and South -- inspires historical amnesia.
By Adam Miller
August 3, 2001
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By Eric Boehlert
June 14, 2001
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A 17-year-old takes a stand against a school Web-filtering system that screens out Planned Parenthood but not the Christian Coalition.
By Daniel Silverman
June 14, 2001
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First Amendment attorney and author Marjorie Heins argues that obscenity laws do children more harm than good.
By Amy Benfer
June 11, 2001
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Our hysterical attempts to shield kids from images of sex and violence are stunting young lives -- and trapping us all in a Big Lie.
By Charles Taylor
June 11, 2001
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How a small group of media moralists busted Yahoo -- after years of failing to make a dent anywhere else.
By Damien Cave
May 11, 2001
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Thrilled to hear David Horowitz's pronouncement that "campus censors are on the run," I try a little free speech of my own -- at Bob Jones U. and other conservative schools.
By David Mazel
April 27, 2001
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Will Rotten.com -- home of the Web's most gruesome, explicit and utterly tasteless photographs -- ever be kicked offline?
By Janelle Brown
March 5, 2001
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My son and I have a deal in which profanity begets literacy.
By Linda Specht
February 8, 2001
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A video watchdog in Utah edits out all the nasty stuff for his Mormon customers.
By Jack Boulware
January 11, 2001
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Everyone can find some reason to worry that the Internet is "out of control," but what's the alternative?
By Scott Rosenberg
January 11, 2001
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An artist who challenged Jesse Helms and George Bush's "decency clause" 10 years ago remembers what it was like to be called the "chocolate smeared young woman."
By Karen Finley
November 13, 2000
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New legislation that would require the use of filtering software by public libraries is unnecessary and unconstitutional.
By Christopher Hunter
October 25, 2000
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Eudora's MoodWatch feature presumes to judge the offensiveness of my language.
By Peter Y. Sussman
October 24, 2000
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