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Freedom of Speech, Press, and Association on the Internet

The Free Software Foundation supports the freedoms of speech, press, and association on the Internet. Please check out:

• The Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition came together to oppose Congress' first attempt to regulate content on the Internet, the Communications Decency Act, which the U.S. Supreme Court found unconstitutional on June 26, 1997. Their site is being preserved as a resource on the landmark CDA case.
• Censoring GNU Emacs describes how the Communications Decency Act required the GNU Project to censor GNU Emacs--and how this paradoxically had the opposite of the effect that the censors wanted.
• F.A.C.T.Net Inc. is a non-profit Internet digest, news service, library, dialogue center, and archive dedicated to the promotion and defense of international free thought, free speech, and privacy rights.
• The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and Association.
• Save the Web is a movement dedicated to ensuring that the highest priority of Internet law in Europe is to protect individual Internet users' rights. Please also read Saving Europe from Software Patents
• Organizations that work for freedom in computer development and electronic communications.

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