First Amendment Rodeo October 5-18, 2011
A round-up of intellectual freedom issues in the news
Censorship/Book Banning
Defend the Freedom to Read: It’s Everybody’s Job
Brookfield residents ask the board to drop book from curriculum
Privacy/Technology
The Default Choice, So Hard to Resist
Adult content filters can’t replace good parenting
Why Facebook is after your kids
Secret Orders Target Email
Fed court to reexamine library web filters
Patriot Act
NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act
See also:FOIA and the Question of Secret Law
2 comments
Under the guise of fighting terrorism, the Patriot Act was adopted WITHOUT public approval or vote just weeks after the events of 9/11. Such an unconstitutional set of laws should be abolished seeing as they violate human rights and due process. A mere 3 criminal charges of terrorism a year attributed to this act, which is mainly used for no-knock raids leading to drug-related arrests without proper cause for search and seizure. The laws are simply a means to spy on our own citizens and to detain and torture dissidents without trial or a right to council. You can read much more about living in this Orwellian society of fear and see my visual response to these measures on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html