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Reason February 2007 Jesse Walker |
Muddy Rules In a rare move away from stricter regulation of on-air speech, the FCC has reaffirmed the right to swear during a newscast. First Amendment fans shouldn't get too excited, though. |
Reason June 2004 Matt Welch |
Fair-Weather Friends When American journalists desert from free speech battles. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2000 James V. DeLong |
Free Money Campaign finance "loopholes" are the best part of the system. |
InternetNews October 10, 2005 Roy Mark |
FCC Launches Obscenity Info Site Agency launches web site to educate public about what is -- and is not -- obscene, indecent and profane material. |
Reason October 2006 Jeff Jarvis |
America Gives a Shit Was Bush's open-mic gaffe a flaming sack of good news for free speech? |
Reason November 2008 Jesse Walker |
Beyond the Fairness Doctrine Barack Obama says he wouldn't reintroduce the Federal Communications Commission's most notorious speech-squashing regulation. But there are more mundane reasons to fear the next FCC. |
Reason July 2001 Michael W. Lynch |
Prof. Smith Goes to Washington Federal Election Commission member Bradley A. Smith takes on campaign finance laws... |
Reason October 2004 Julian Sanchez |
Data: Second-Guessing the First Amendment Surveys show Americans seem to be more fond of free speech in the abstract than in specific instances. |
ifeminists February 18, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Censorship Is Not Solution for Trashy TV Janet Jackson's pop-up breast during SuperBowl halftime did not create the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004. But it will propel passage of that Act, the consequences of which may be far worse than a bit of trashy exhibitionism on TV. |
ifeminists February 18, 2003 Nicki Fellenzer |
Is It So Hard To Believe? Privacy, the first amendment, and legislation after 9/11. |
Salon.com March 30, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
Let them spend millions Campaign finance reform stifles grass-roots organizing and harms American politics, says a member of the Federal Election Commission.... |
ifeminists April 6, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
On Campus, Free Speech at Odds With Tax Funding The clashing of freedom of speech with tax funding sparks First Amendment debates on college campuses. The controversy is highlighted by a case where a male student was barred from a feminist event on a state campus. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Man Behind the SAFE Banking Act on Fixing Wall Street Senator Ted Kaufman discusses why, despite the defeat of his SAFE banking amendment, there is still hope for real reform. |
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez |
Civics Lessons In a highly polarized time, pedagogues seem increasingly wary of the "disruptive" effect of student political speech in America. |
Reason October 2005 Julian Sanchez |
Soundbite: Fifth Columnist An interview with John Tierney, on his newly appointed role as op-ed columnist for The New York Times. |
Salon.com November 2, 2000 Daniel Ellsberg |
Would Clinton ban release of the Pentagon Papers? The whistle-blower who helped end the Vietnam War discusses the greatest threat ever to free speech and a free press... |
Reason January 2001 Cathy Young |
God Talk The First Amendment vs. freedom of speech... |
InternetNews December 11, 2009 |
Net Neutrality Debate Enters Free Speech Territory Cable and advocacy groups find another point over which to square off. |
InternetNews October 6, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Buys Speech Support Microsoft's Speech Server will tap new technology to help facilitate adaptive learning. |
Salon.com January 3, 2001 Daryl Lindsey |
Gays blast Interior nominee Former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton angered many with her defense of a controversial anti-homosexual measure... |
InternetNews February 18, 2011 |
House Moves to Defund FCC Net Neutrality Rules Amid the broad, noisy debate over the continuing resolution to keep the government funded, the lower chamber approves an amendment to bar the FCC from implementing its open Internet order. |