Top Items About Freedom Of Speech

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TriviaA brief history of Censorship in America

Seven years after the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791, Congress enacted the Sedition Act [1798] making it a crime...

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AnecdotesFreedom of Speech?

In 1919, Charles Schenck, general secretary of the Socialist Party, was convicted of attempting to obstruct the draft...

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AnecdotesVladimir Putin: Press Freedom in Russia

"[Russian President Vladimir Putin`s] doings are covered Soviet-style in minute detail in every broadcast," Nicholas...

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AnecdotesJohn McCain: Captive For Freedom

After enduring more than five harrowing years (much of it in solitary confinement) as a prisoner of war in Vietnam,...

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AnecdotesLandmark lawsuit: bloggers considered journalists

A [2007] lawsuit judgment provided evidence for two things: a blogger may qualify as a journalist; and just because you're a...

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AnecdotesJoao Baptista Figueiredo: Brazilian Democracy

"I intend to open this country up to democracy," Brazilian president General Joao Baptista Figueiredo declared one day...

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AnecdotesHonorary Citizen

Although Winston Churchill was made an honorary citizen of the United States in April 1963, he was too frail to attend...

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AnecdotesDr. Marble & Dick Cheney

As he stood about 10 feet away from VP Dick Cheney and some camera operators from CNN and other media filmed the...

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AnecdotesCourtney Love: Torch of Liberty

"For the ultimate Nimby, nothing exists outside one`s own right to say what one wants and to be protected from those who...

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AnecdotesDonald Rumsfeld: Church and State (long)

"In October, the Los Angeles Times reported that [Lieutenant General William (Jerry) Boykin], while...

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