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Web site of China-based journalist club attacked

BEIJING (AP) – An organization for foreign journalists based in China has become the latest victim of cyberattacks targeting the Web sites or e-mail accounts of human rights groups and reporters focused on China. Cyberattacks linked to China have gained more attention since Google Inc. accused Chinese hackers in January of trying to plunder its software [...]

Anti-Abortion Activist Wins Free-Speech Ruling

Anti-Abortion Activist Wins Free-Speech Ruling

(CN) – National Park Service rangers violated the free-speech rights of an anti-abortion activist when they arrested him for demonstrating near the Liberty Bell Center, the 3rd Circuit ruled. Michael Anthony Marcavage, founder of Repent America ministries, led a group of about 20 protesters holding signs depicting graphic images of aborted fetuses. He used a bullhorn [...]

For some, free speech comes at a price

By any measure, it has been a banner year for the freedom of speech. In its annual “Ideas Issue,” the Atlantic Monthly ranked “the triumph of free speech” as the 10th-biggest trend shaping America in 2010. From bloggers to tea partiers to vocal advocates of net neutrality, a tidal wave of expression [...]