Pakistan telecoms authority to block 'obscene' texts

11-23-2011 • BBC

Mobile phone companies Telenor Pakistan and Ufone confirmed to the BBC that the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has sent them a "dictionary" of banned words and expressions.

Russian newsreader Tatyana Limanova makes insulting gesture at Obama

11-23-2011 • telegraph.co.uk

A top Russian female newsreader has caused a stir after appearing to offensively show US President Barack Obama her middle finger during a live newscast.

The New York Times Calls The Obama Deception "An Antigovernment Film"

11-22-2011 • The Excavator

The Establishment media is at it again: Calling anti-treason and truth speech "anti-government."

White House and MSM Target Alex Jones & More: Infowars Nightly News

11-22-2011 • prisonplanet.com

The latest on the NYT attempting to link Alex Jones to the alleged White House shooter and Forbes claiming Jones and trends forecaster Gerald Celente are attempting to instigate a run on banks

A Message To The SPLC From A Montana “Extremist”

11-21-2011 • www.alt-market.com

I’ll be the first to admit, people who refuse to compromise their principles under any circumstances can be utterly terrifying. Defiance, in its purest form, requires fearlessness; a brand of fearlessness we have little experience of today.

Cancer center's Santa gets boot

11-17-2011 • postandcourier.com

Decorations will be "more secular and respectful to all beliefs," Agnew said. "We don't want to offend a volunteer with good intentions, but we need to think of the bigger picture. People who are Muslim or Jewish or have no religious beliefs come her

UK jihadist threatens to murder those who support mag firebombed for Muhammad satire

11-07-2011 • Jihad Watch

U.K. Islamist leader Anjem Choudary announces on his Twitter page any media that supports Charlie Hebdo's publishing Mohammed parody stories with a fate similar to what happened to Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

French Satirical Magazine Office Fire Bombed Ahead of 'Muhammad Edition'

11-03-2011 • Fox News

The offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were gutted by fire Tuesday night, officials said, hours before a special issue of the weekly that features the prophet Muhammad appeared on newsstands.

NPR fires Opera host for anti-war protests

10-25-2011 • RT.Com/USA

Because one radio host is concerned that America is going baroque over its massive military budget, NPR has ditched the DJ behind its World of Opera program due to her affiliation with a political protest in Washington DC.

Soldiers burn O'Reilly books

10-25-2011 • RT.Com/USA

It gets awfully cold in the Afghan desert at night, and American troops need to sometimes take desperate measures to stay warm. One smart soldier in Afghanistan has stumbled on a trick, however: Bill O’Reilly’s book makes some damn good kindling.

Courts Uphold Right to Film Police

9/20/2011 • Free Patriot Press

When one hears the term “wiretapping”normally one thinks of secretly recording phone calls of others. Some may have thoughts of Watergate. However, under some crafty interpretations of the legal definition of wiretapping, several people have found th

Arrest at Ground Zero Proves Free Speech is Dead

09-13-2011 • www.prisonplanet.com

A disturbing video from the 10th anniversary of 9/11 shows a man being arrested for simply speaking out on the streets of New York City.

Free speech is in retreat throughout the West

09-09-2011 • blogs.telegraph.co.uk

There's a sizzling piece by Mark Steyn in the current issue of National Review, which reveals quite how far democracies have gone in restricting free speech.

Burning bank artwork leads to police questioning

09-08-2011 • rt.com

Three years after the bank bailout saved America’s financial institutions, big banks appear to be more protected than ever, even from a harmless oil painter. Police have repeatedly questioned a middle-aged artist with an inflammatory political mes

Can We Tape? - A Practical Guide to Taping Phone Calls and In-Person Conversations in the 50 States

08-27-2011 • The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

A state-by-state breakdown of the wiretapping laws compiled by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Anti Censorship Heats Up

08-27-2011 • arclein

Telex works as envisioned and if the major funding is found to massively scale it up to thousands of specially equipped servers that can detect and redirect requests to supposedly blocked websites, then it could lift the cyber curtain imposed by Chi

FCC Finally Does Something Right

08-22-2011 • Paul Levinson

It eliminates the Fairness Doctrine - next, it should eliminate itself

“Everything You Say Can And Will Be Used Against You, By Anybody, Now Or Decades Into The Future.”

08-21-2011 • http://falkvinge.net/

Every day, we say things that we wouldn’t say in other contexts. We react to news with WTF-type blurts, we react to stupid politicians and greedy bankers with emotional statements.

A step in the right direction – the path towards self-government

08-21-2011 • http://economicsandliberty.wordpress.com/

Us Now takes a look at how this type of participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government forever.

In Defense of Flashmobs

08-11-2011 • Paul Levinson

banning flashmobs is unconstitutional and would get in the way of direct democracy

County limits free speech to 3'x3' space ... in woods

08-08-2011 • www.wnd.com

Restriction blasted as 'most unconstitutional zone ever'

Silver Calculator goes to Vegas and Wins big!

07-31-2011 • http://Whatisthiscoinworth.info

At this years Freedom Fest the coin Silver smart phone app was well received and drummed up quite a buzz.

Man's call for Obama assassination is free speech, not crime, court rules

07-20-2011 • LA Times via Drudgereport.com

"When our law punishes words, we must examine the surrounding circumstances to discern the significance of those words’ utterance, but must not distort or embellish their plain meaning so that the law may reach them,"

City Council bans citizens group

07-18-2011 • .

The City Council, unhappy about a civic betterment group, the Gould Citizens Advisory Council, adopted an ordinance "disallowing" the organization from existing and further declaring "no new organization" can be formed without council approval.

Visa again blockades WikiLeaks’ credit card donations

07-08-2011 • http://www.rawstory.com/

U.S. credit card provider Visa said Thursday that a payment processor in Iceland briefly opened the floodgates to donations to secrets outlet WikiLeaks, so they took the necessary steps to close them again.

Murdoch to Close Tabloid Amid Fury Over Hacking

07-07-2011 • http://www.nytimes.com/

The media titan Rupert Murdoch abandoned his defiance of popular and Parliamentary pressure on Thursday, sacrificing the mass-circulation British tabloid News of the World in a bid to protect his News Corporation empire from fallout...

'Nazi' police 'kidnap' woman at town hall

07-07-2011 • http://www.wnd.com/

A small town in Arizona is suddenly a YouTube sensation after a town-hall meeting devolved into a physical clash as a woman was forcibly removed from speaking during the public portion of the event.