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Teen tweeter won't apologize to Kan. governor

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Teen tweeter won't apologize to Kan. governor

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas teenager who wrote a disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback said Sunday that she is rejecting her high school principal's demand for a written apology.

Emma Sullivan, 18, of the Kansas City suburb of Fairway, said she isn't sorry and doesn't think such a letter would be sincere.

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High school student pays price for negative tweet about politician

http://www.kansascity.com

High schooler makes negative tweet about politician on field trip to capital, gets trip to principal's office and then forced to write apology letter.

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Google Refuses to Censor Police Brutality Videos

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Between SOPA and NDAA battle lines are being drawn across the Internet and this week it appears that web giant Google is standing by their unofficial corporate motto, “don’t be evil.” In their recent Transparency Report reflecting the time from January to June, 2011 they revealed their refusal to comply with law enforcement requests to block videos of police brutality on YouTube

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Bradley Manning calls out Barack Obama

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After 18 months held in torturous conditions the swift hand of Justice has reached out to Bradley Manning… or at least it’s waving from a distance. On December 16th a preliminary hearing is scheduled where a military judge will determine if there is sufficient evidence to proceed with a court-martial. Manning faces over two dozen charges from disobeying an order to aiding the enemy. A request filed by Manning’s attorney is going to send a lot of us scrambling to brush up on current perjury law. Calling the first witness… President Barack Obama.

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Arizona Town In Furor After 2nd Citizen Arrested At Town Meet

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Small Arizona Town In Furor After 2nd Citizen Arrested For Speaking At Town Meeting

The town of Quartzsite, AZ, population 3,466, is in disarray after a video showing police hauling away a citizen for speaking at the town meeting podium went viral. The woman was saying that the town council had been violating open meeting laws.

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Web 3.0 is coming: wireless mesh network in Barcelona shows how

http://guifi.net

In light of government threats of censorship, the fact that the US government has a powerful foothold in the infrastructure of the internet is a major problem. Tech-savvy freedom lovers all over the world are retaliating by creating a whole new, decentralized internet, where all of the infrastructure is owned by the individuals who contribute!

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The DOJ Wants to Crack down on Lying Online

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The pot calls the kettle "black" now as the DOJ wants to crack down on lying.

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Email Reveals CBS Deliberately Limited Candidates in Debate.

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Leaked email to Bachmann campaign indicates decision to limit air time for certain candidates was deliberate CBS News policy.

Congressman Ron Paul was a victim of what later transpired to be a deliberate policy on behalf of CBS News to restrict the air time of certain candidates during last night’s Republican debate, after he was afforded just 90 seconds of speaking time during the course of the event in South Carolina last night.

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Reddit Users Aim To Build A New, Censorship-Free Internet

http://www.forbes.com

Users of the social news and community site Reddit don’t like the way the government seems to be muscling in on the Internet. So they plan to build a new one.

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CONFIRMED: Psychiatric Manual DSM-IV-TR Labels free Thinkers

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CONFIRMED: Psychiatric Manual DSM-IV-TR Labels free Thinkers, non conformers as Mentally Ill

It is now confirmed by USWGO News that the DSM-IV-TR Manual labels free thinkers, non conformers, civil disobedient advocates, those that question authority, and people considered hostile toward the government (aka Oath keepers and local militias) as mentally ill with the illness titled “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.

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Arkansas town seeks to ban free speech for residents

http://www.examiner.com

Small town city council wants to ban people from gathering together to discuss city matters without approval from the city government

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Ranger Orders Visitor to Leave Park, Objection to Ron Paul Decal

http://www.rutherford.org

BLACKSBURG, S.C. — The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of a 73-year-old Virginia resident who was allegedly ordered by a park ranger to remove his car from a national military park in South Carolina because of political messages attached to his vehicle.

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Words to get your website on a government watch list

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Social Media Monitoring FTW - a comprehensive list of what to write (or not to write depending on your attitude)

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Homeland Security Monitoring Internet For Anti-Govt Sentiment

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com

A privacy advocacy group has swayed Congress to hold a hearing next week into the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of monitoring social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as media reports and organizations, including The Drudge Report.

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STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP

http://americancensorship.org

STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP—TWO BILLS IN CONGRESS UNDERMINE THE PRINCIPLES OF THE WEB
On November 16th, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" will be heard in Congress. This legislation, in addition to the Senate's "Protect IP Act," completely undermine and fundamentally change the core principles of the Web. They have the potential to radically alter or shut down sites like YouTube, Flickr, 4chan, others, and all new companies that follow.
See americancensorship.org for more and help us stop these bills from becoming law.

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Professor Takes Box Cutter to Students' Free Speech Wall

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Professor cuts out insult to Obama on students' 'free speech wall' with box cutter; Police threaten students with misdemeanor for public profanity

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No Freedom of Speech

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A man in New York was sentenced to 15 days in jail for violating his city's ordinance regulating electronic billboard messages.

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ACTA: the Internet censorship “law” that can’t be repealed?

http://www.freepatriot-press.com

Just last month millions of Americans rallied to defeat SOPA and PIPA. However, something worse has crept in the back-door and may not be able to be repealed. In October 2011, President Obama signed an international agreement called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement or ACTA.

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Judge Forces Man to Apologize for FB Post, or be Jailed

http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com

A man with a record of domestic violence was found to have violated a court order from "causing plaintiff or the child of the parties to suffer physical and/or mental abuse, harassment, annoyance or bodily injury."
The plaintiff was his estranged wife, and the violation was for a post on Facebook. The judge sentenced him to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine, but waived it if he apologized on Facebook, and left it there for 30 days.

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Pirates Developing a DIY Space Program to bypass SOPA

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A team of German hackers aims to launch a network of communications satellites to completely circumvent government censorship of the Internet.

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