Category: Censorship

"Everybody Draw Muhammed" Day

Even if you want to make a point about censorship, you can't be too careful on “Everybody Draw Muhammed” Day…

"You Can't Handle The Truth" – Media Bans in the Digital Age

Everybody's probably familiar with the sad story of Tori Stafford, the young girl from Woodstock, Ontario who was abducted and killed last year.  Recently, some new detail has

Friday Fun Link – 4% of Librarians Are Virgins But 7% Have Had More Than 20 Sexual Partners In Their Lives (April 23, 2010)

Recently, a 1992 study of sex and libraries was published online having originally been published without much initial fanfare but then quickly leading to the firing of the

Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)

I wrote about this meme before.  Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made

Why Ann Coulter is the Iron Sheik of Politics

One of the big hub-bubs of the last week or so was around the fact that American right-wing commentator, Ann Coulter, had one of her speeches in Canada

FTRW 2010 – Friday Fun Link – "Straight Outta Compton" Edited to *Only* The Profanity

For how demonized some albums are, when you cut it down to just the “bad” parts, it really puts things in perspective.  19 seconds.  42 seconds.  29 seconds. 

FTRW 2010 – Running Back To Saskatoon

I thought somebody (the CLA Committee on Intellectual Freedom?) released an annual report on book challenges during the past year.  I wasn't able to find it but the

FTRW 2010 – ChatRoulette

It's not book related but nothing says Freedom of Expression like the newest buzz site of the Internet, ChatRoulette.   The site is exactly what it says – you

FTRW 2010 – Hitler and the Public Domain

German copyright law grants an author copyright for 70 years after their death.  Hitler died in 1945 so that means “Mein Kampf” will enter the public domain in

FTRW 2010 – Music Monday "Listen, little girl, it's near the hour…I've got the righteous power"

So yeah…I was trying to think of a good clip to feature for Music Monday now that it's Freedom to Read Week.  I thought about posting Elvis' infamous

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