Tracking the modern progress of the First Amendment
Posted in Speech in Education on Jan 16th, 2008
DePaul University has unveiled a new policy outlining the school’s guidelines for on-campus student speech. Included in the guidelines is a warning to some students who have raised concerns that they may encounter certain viewpoints they will find offensive:
Ultimately, by remaining open to a broad range of ideas and opinions—even those that may appear to […]
Posted in info on Jan 14th, 2008
This site explores developing issues related to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Each week there are dozens of news stories involving censorship, press rights and religious expression, and the “rules” governing the rights associated with public expression are constantly being debated and modified to keep pace with the current political climate.
The aim […]
Posted in info on Jan 14th, 2008
Free speech on online message boards
There are a number of online communities devoted to controversial subjects, and many of them include public discussion forums in which people express themselves in ways that they might not otherwise in everyday life. Because these discussions are accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, sometimes the threads provoke public […]
Posted in info on Jan 14th, 2008
There are a number of discussion forums, message boards, and comment threads dedicated to the First Amendment and new developments related to the rights therein. Here are a few of them:
American Political Free Speech
Google Group with dozens of daily news updates
http://groups.google.com/group/political-free-speech?hl=en&lnk=gschg
Buzz Machine
Blog featuring discussion […]
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First Amendment Center
Affiliated with Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Public Policy Studies, the Center provides information and a range of legal interpretations of the Amendment
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/
American Civil Liberties Union
Nonprofit organization specializing in civil liberties law
http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/index.html
http://www.aclu.org/religion/index.html
American Library Association: First Amendment Directory
Has a strong stance on protecting “intellectual freedom”; lists numerous links to resources and other advocates
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/firstamendment/firstamendment.htm
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Covers […]
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