NL- Title fixed, thanks doc OP/ED by Tim Carr AT&T, the nation’s second-largest mobile phone company, is pushing forward its plan to take over T-Mobile, the fourth-largest carrier. This deal would form a communications colossus not seen since the monopoly days of Ma Bell. Two companies, AT&T and Verizon, would control close to 80 percent…
.XXX and Child Protection…BULLSHIT! By Diane Duke, Free Speech Coalition Executive Director from http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/ The adult entertainment industry is certainly no stranger to the use of “child protection” as a pretext to impose unnecessary regulations on it while engaging in direct attacks on the civil liberties of its members. But governments are not the only…
by Timothy Karr of www.freepress.net A million people took to the streets of Egypt earlier this week to protest the Mubarak regime and call for democratic reform. The Egyptian government responded, again, by cutting off Internet access and plunging the nation into digital darkness. Such drastic action is a new way for governments to smother…
NL-Remember Luther Campbell aka Luke Skywalker from 2 Live Crew? The guy who got arrested for obscene words and gestures in his rap music and fought for years for his freedom of speech? The current mayor of Miami is under investigation and maybe be thrown out of office after a vote is held. Luther Campbell…
From http://fscblogger.wordpress.com/ FSC is proud to announce new members to its Board of Directors. The Board election was open to all active FSC members and held during the month of December. Incumbent board members that were re-elected include Board Chair Jeffrey Douglas, Board President Sid Grief, Secretary Mark Kernes, Board Treasurer Lynn Swanson, Reed Lee,…
I like movies that make you think. That maybe even have a moral, but not a clear one. One that you have to decide for yourself. Unthinkable is one of those rare movies, that is unpredictable. Torture is not something that Americans do to their enemies. People we take prisoner are treated fairly. They…
NL- This might be a decision for mainstream, but it leaks over into our industry when you start thinking about adult programming on comcast and the chances of religious people having a say in what we can and cannot see. OP/ED From Josh Silver President and CEO Free Press www.freepress.net The decision was handed down…
From Free Speech Coalition thttp://fscblogger.wordpress.com/ This is a layperson’s (my) opinion of how free speech is supposed to work: American citizens are allowed to express themselves using various protected forms of speech – speech that doesn’t incite violence or bodily harm (an example of illegal speech being, if someone were to…
Why I Am Donating $50,000 to WikiLeaks’ Defense Fund From Huffington Post by Larry Flynt Let’s get something straight: Julian Assange is a journalist. You can argue that he is not practicing journalism the way you think it should be practiced — releasing classified U.S. State Department documents — but he’s a journalist nonetheless. And…
OP/ED by BigRed Unless you’ve been under a rock lately its safe to say you heard about Wikileaks coming out with a new round of government information. Some classified some almost classified. In a nut shell Wikileaks is a serious big dog when it comes to info on what’s going on in the world due…
