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Portal:Freedom of speech/DYK/1
- ...that although Norman Rockwell (pictured) felt Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Worship were the most successful of his Four Freedoms painting series, Freedom from Want has had the most enduring success?
- ... that 37 photographs, 12 home movies, a bunch of books and a search warrant have had their day in the Supreme Court?
- ...that Publishers Weekly criticized Cyber Rights by civil liberties lawyer Mike Godwin for the book's "unusually broad view of free speech"?
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- ...that Joey Johnson (pictured), who won the landmark United States freedom of speech case on flag burning, was said to show up at protests with a bloody, severed pig's head on a leash?
- ...that the author of the book Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege" was recognized with the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award?
- ...that in the book Net.wars, author Wendy M. Grossman attributes Internet conflict in the 1990s to culture shock from an influx of users?
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- ... that William Glendon argued successfully before the U.S. Supreme Court that the Nixon Administration could not use prior restraint to prevent printing of the Pentagon Papers (pictured)?
- ...that the book Beyond the First Amendment argues freedom of speech on the Internet is not easily addressed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?
- ...that prior to authoring Freedom of Expression®, Kembrew McLeod successfully registered the phrase "freedom of expression" as a trademark in the United States?
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- ...that Westmoreland v. CBS (Westmoreland pictured) demonstrated that a public figure cannot win a libel suit in the United States unless reckless and defamatory statements are evidence of actual malice?
- ...that despite $170m spent on security, Australian comedy group The Chaser managed to enter the restricted zone of the 2007 APEC Summit in a fake motorcade?
- ...that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks that it is not unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons?
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- ...that during the Lithuanian press ban (Banned example pictured) from 1864 to 1904, it was illegal in Lithuania to print, import, distribute, or possess any publications that were written in the Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet?
- ...that the Colombian journalist Diana Turbay was killed while kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel in order to create pressure against the Colombia-USA extradition treaty?
- ... that the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would allow security officials at some international borders to randomly search travelers' MP3 players, laptops, and cell phones for copyright-infringing music files?
Portal:Freedom of speech/DYK/6
- ...that cyber law author and professor Jonathan Zittrain (pictured) co-founded StopBadware.org to distribute the task of collecting data about malware to Internet users at large?
- ...that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN?
- ... that sociology of the Internet is one of newly emerged branches of sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide, online social capital and public sphere?
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- ...that after the non-profit Internet service provider Public Netbase began supporting websites that opposed his political party, Austrian politician Jörg Haider (pictured) accused the organisation of sponsoring child pornography?
- ...that Selvarajah Rajivarnam was the fourth journalist to be killed on April 29, during the last three years of the Sri Lankan civil war?
- ...that Romanian poet, dissident, and journalist Dorin Tudoran was only allowed to leave Romania for the United States after a 42-day-long hunger strike in 1985?
Portal:Freedom of speech/DYK/8
- ...that American photojournalist Daniel Smith (pictured) was once kidnapped by members of the Mehdi Army and taken to meet Muqtada al-Sadr?
- ...that 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist?
- ...that the Colombian journalist Diana Turbay was killed while kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel in order to create pressure against the Colombia-USA extradition treaty?
Portal:Freedom of speech/DYK/9
- ...that Bob Woodward (pictured) has twice won the Worth Bingham Prize: in 1972 for reports on Watergate and in 1987 for covering covert action in United States foreign policy?
- ...that Chen Chi-li, late head of Taiwan's United Bamboo Gang, claimed to have killed dissident journalist Henry Liu out of patriotism, and refused the $20,000 payout he was offered?
- ... that Martynas Jankus, Lithuanian journalist and "Patriarch of Lithuania Minor", was penalized around forty times by Prussian authorities for his public activities?
Portal:Freedom of speech/DYK/10
- ...that the Gerald Loeb Award, administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management (pictured), is considered the most prestigious honor in business journalism?
- ... that Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salih was awarded the 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom, despite being from "one of the most restrictive media environments on the African continent"?
- ... that there are eight exceptions to the freedom of speech in the United States?
Portal:Freedom of speech/DYK/11
- ...that Tajikistan (pictured) was one of the deadliest countries for journalists in the 1990s, with dozens of journalists killed, including Belarusian documentary filmmaker Arcady Ruderman and Bukharan Jewish journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov?
- ...that Corry v. Stanford was a California court case that declared Stanford University's speech code illegal under the freedom of speech protections of the state's Leonard Law?
- ... that the rights to freedom of speech, assembly and association are guaranteed by Article 14 of the Singapore Constitution only to Singapore citizens?
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- ... that the global media alliance Project Klebnikov is dedicated to investigating the July 2004 murder of journalist Paul Klebnikov (pictured)?
- ...that the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
- ... that the United States Supreme Court dismissed an important First Amendment case after it was found to be moot?
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- ... that Judge Morris Pashman upheld a ban on the sale of the John Cleland book Fanny Hill (cover pictured) in New Jersey, calling it "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment"?
- ...that California's Leonard Law applies the United States Constitution's First Amendment protections to students at private colleges and universities?
- ... that in San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not protect the use of the word "Olympics", over the objections of the U.S. Olympic Committee?
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- ...that Thomas E. Latimer, a one-term mayor of Minneapolis (pictured), also played a key role in the landmark freedom of the press case Near v. Minnesota?
- ...that the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
- ...that in Kuwait, the freedom of the press is restricted mostly by self-censorship rather than active government action?
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- ... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press that Henry Kissinger (pictured) did not have to release phone transcripts that were made while he was Secretary of State?
- ...that James Lingan, officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland for defending the freedom of the press?
- ... that Ukraine is considered to have the greatest freedom of the press of all the former Soviet Union states?
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- ...that in the 1930 Polish election, due to government censorship, opposition papers were reduced to using images of Nietzsche (pictured), because he resembled dictator Józef Piłsudski?
- ...that Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre project created to oppose Belarusian government pressure and censorship?
- ... that the 2003 historical Chinese TV series Towards the Republic has been subject to significant censorship, and compared to River Elegy, a TV series that influenced the Tiananmen movement of 1989?
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- ... that Pino Orioli helped D. H. Lawrence (pictured) circumvent the censorship of Lady Chatterley's Lover by having it printed in Italy by workers who did not know any English?
- ...that the character of Philostrate, the Master of Revels in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, may have been created as a way to poke fun at play censorship?
- ...that John Perlman, one of South Africa's most popular radio presenters, resigned after blowing the whistle on political censorship at the South African Broadcasting Corporation?
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- ...that former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson (pictured) was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?
- ... that a comic book about Eva Perón was aborted during production because of political censorship to other works by the authors, and published posthumously instead?
- ... that The Lame Devil, Sacha Guitry's 1948 historical film, was blocked by French censorship and had to be turned into a successful play before being allowed filming?
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- ... that Nathaniel Hawthorne's (pictured) 1862 essay "Chiefly About War Matters" was censored because of his description of Abraham Lincoln?
- ... that during the opening sequence of "The Squirt and the Whale", The Simpsons addressed the controversy surrounding censorship of the South Park episode "201"?
- ... that the opposition against the use of censorship to fight child pornography on the internet by MOGIS helped strengthen the credibility of the movement against such measures?
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- ... that Ludvig Meyer (pictured), the defender of writer Hans Jæger during the high-profile censorship case in 1886, later became the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party?
- ... that due to widespread censorship and control of media in the Eastern Bloc, underground distribution of clandestine information became common?
- ... that human rights activist Ayse Nur Zarakolu, an Amnesty International "prisoner of conscience", was arrested 30 times and jailed four for violating censorship laws in Turkey?
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