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Salon.com
June 11, 2001
Charles Taylor |
The morality police Our hysterical attempts to shield kids from images of sex and violence are stunting young lives -- and trapping us all in a Big Lie...   |
InternetNews
June 29, 2004
Roy Mark |
Supreme Court Upholds COPA Ban Justices suggest filtering software superior alternative to content-based restrictions on free speech. |
BusinessWeek
October 21, 2010
Cliff Edwards |
Mortal Kombat at the Supreme Court The Supreme Court is weighing whether to uphold a California law banning sales of violent video games to minors. |
Salon.com
October 25, 2000
Christopher Hunter |
Don't let McCain censor the Net New legislation that would require the use of filtering software by public libraries is unnecessary and unconstitutional... |
InternetNews
March 23, 2007
Roy Mark |
Court Snuffs Internet Smut Law Nearly nine years after Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act, a Philadelphia federal court judge ruled Thursday that COPA is unconstitutional. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2006
Roy Mark |
Deemed Obscene The Bush administration is launching an assault against the First Amendment rights of Internet users. |
Reason
October 2005
Daniel Koffler |
Grand Theft Scapegoat Video game prohibitionists are highly selective about the evidence they present, hoping to substitute raw emotional appeal for a plausible explanatory framework. Unfortunately, blanket condemnations and frightening anecdotes are likely to be with us as long as they prove electorally profitable. |
Information Today
October 6, 2015
George H. Pike |
The Legal Implications of Banned Books Week The American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read by drawing attention to attempts to censor reading materials in public, school, and academic libraries. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003 |
Libraries Face Up to Filters When a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer that federally funded libraries must install software filters on public-access computers, the decision capped off a fiery debate over library patrons' First Amendment rights. Months later, it's clear the controversy isn't over. |
Salon.com
April 19, 2002
Amy Benfer |
What's so bad about good sex? "Harmful to Minors" author Judith Levine talks about why American parents are afraid of their teenagers' sexuality, says kids know the difference between coercion and consent -- and blasts critics who say she advocates pedophilia... |
Reason
October 2001
Mike Godwin |
Standards Issue The Supreme Court, "community standards," and the Internet... |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2008
Matt Villano |
What Are We Protecting Them From? By mandating schools restrict internet access, CIPA and other federal and state legislation intend to guard students' safety online-but all they may be doing is keeping vital educational technology out of the classroom. |
Reason
July 2009
Jesse Walker |
The Blurry Boundaries of Child Porn Not every illicit image is equally offensive. |
Salon.com
June 23, 2000
Janelle Brown |
Another defeat for "kiddie porn" law Free speech wins again as the COPA is struck down by a court of appeals. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2004
Geoffry Fletcher |
Securing High-Tech Classrooms There is a variety of approaches to security in educational institutions. Americans need to vote for a president who will not only support educational communications safety, but who will appoint Sepreme Court Justices who will uphold the policy. |
Reason
February 2004
Carl F. Horowitz |
Teenage Wasteland Critics on the left and right falsely portray kids as passive victims of mass media. |
InternetNews
April 18, 2007
Roy Mark |
WARNING: This Label Is Worthless Ignoring a string of legal defeats, Congress turns again to the idea of labels for Web sites containing obscene material. |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Amy Benfer |
A game called suicide Teacher and author Jane Katch talks about the value -- and necessity -- of violent play... |
InternetNews
August 4, 2006
Roy Mark |
The Dopes of DOPA In an ugly fit of election year pandering to one of parents' worse fears, the House recently passed the Deleting Online Predators Act. |
Reason
July 2003
Jesse Walker |
Birth of a Medium Video games, art, and moral panic: wild rhetoric and ill-conceived laws interfere not just with gamers' fun but with an art form in its infancy. |
Reason
March 2001
Jesse Walker |
Intolerant Alliance Censors of right and left have been cooperating for years... |
Salon.com
September 14, 2000
Joe Eszterhas |
They came, they caved If Hollywood's heads won't stick up for our rights, I will. So why won't Joe Lieberman agree to meet with me? |
ifeminists
August 12, 2003
Marty Klein |
To Anti-Sexuals, We're ALL Gay Gay rights are not just for gays. They are essential for every sexual person in America, regardless of orientation. |
Reason
May 2004
G. Beato |
Xtreme Measures Washington's new crackdown on pornography. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2005
Roy Mark |
Parents Tightening Reins on Teens' Web Access The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports the use of Web filters is increasing. |
Mother Jones
May/Jun 2001 |
Media Jones - Book, Music & Film Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth... Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence... Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina... etc. |
InternetNews
August 11, 2006
Roy Mark |
Parents Smarter Than Congress? New surveys show parents are making all the right moves when it comes to protecting their children from online dangers. Congress, on the other hand .... |
Reason
June 2001 |
Negotiating Traffic I agree wholeheartedly with Nick Gillespie's editorial on Traffic... There was never any valid reason to outlaw drugs in the first place... etc. |
PC Magazine
February 10, 2011
Jeffrey L. Wilson |
The 10 Most Violent Video Games of All Time What do Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto III, Mortal Kombat, and Splatterhouse have in common? They've let gamers spill much, much blood. |
Salon.com
June 14, 2001
Daniel Silverman |
Censorship High A 17-year-old takes a stand against a school Web-filtering system that screens out Planned Parenthood but not the Christian Coalition... |
Reason
August 2002
Thomas Szasz |
Sins of the Fathers Is child molestation a sickness or a crime? |
ifeminists
July 19, 2006
Erin Pizzey |
Domestic Violence Is Not A Gender Issue The idea that the family is a danger to women and children has destroyed much of our traditional concepts of marriage. The feminisation of the family and Western society has caused men to become outcasts and a source of ridicule in their children's eyes. |
Reason
March 2001
Jib Fowles |
The Whipping Boy The hidden conflicts underlying the campaign against violent TV... |
Salon.com
February 25, 2002
Janelle Brown |
What family values? The director of the Child Witness to Violence Project argues that President Bush isn't doing enough for kids who see too much... |
ifeminists
November 29, 2006
Wendy McElroy |
Kofi's Legacy Misfires The reality of global violence against anyone is impossible to capture as long women are cast as the victims and men as the attackers. This is precisely what the UN Secretary-General's Study on Violence Against Women does. |
Reason
May 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
MySpace = Safe Space Predator panic debunked |
Wired
September 2004 |
Trackback The Human Body, Patented... Scooped!... Power to the People... Microsoft's War on Bugs...etc. |
ifeminists
May 13, 2009
Carey Roberts |
Shattering Rampant Abuse Myths Curious to know what are the leading causes of injury to women? Here they are: unintentional falls, car accidents, and overexertion. Domestic violence did not even make the list. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Targets Social Networking Sites Legislation would force schools and libraries to block sites like MySpace. |
InternetNews
June 24, 2005
Tim Gray |
Yahoo Shuts Chat Room Doors Yahoo has closed all of its user-created Internet chat rooms amid fears that adults are using the sites to lure minors into sexual acts. |
