http://www.metafilter.com/tags/intellectualfreedom Posts tagged with 'intellectualfreedom' at MetaFilter. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:46:46 -0800 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:46:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/85436/Celebrate%2Dfreedom%2DRead%2Da%2Dbanned%2Dbook <a href="http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/">Banned Books Week, held annually on the last week of September, emphasizes the importance of intellectual freedom and the threat of censorship.</a> <a href="http://bannedbooksweek.org/Mapofbookcensorship.html">Here's</a> a helpful map of recent book bans and challenges in the Unites States. The American Library Association lets you <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/index.cfm">search the most frequently banned books </a>by year and author. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.85436 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:46:46 -0800 americanlibraryassociation bannedbooksweek censorship FirstAmendment intellectualfreedom libraries orrnyereg http://www.metafilter.com/33662/Censor%2DMichael%2DMoore <a href="http://www.moveamericaforward.com/">Even paranoids have enemies...</a> A Web site posing as nonpartisan that is funded by a GOP PR outfit and a Senate candidate urges people to call theaters to complain about their plans to show the Michael Moore film "Farenheit 9/11" when it opens. Some theater owners report death threats. The movie's <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">infamous trailer</a> has already been called one of the most effective anti-Bush campaign ads in circulation. So who is behind the censorship effort? <a href="http://www.cosmiciguana.com/archives/002430.html">Cosmic Iguana,</a> "the voice of the evildoers", has some <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/russo.html">clues.</a> Why, it's <a href="http://www.howardforsenate.com/">Howard Kaloogian, </a>one of the men behind the <a href="http://www.fact-index.com/h/ho/howard_kaloogian.html">Gray Davis recall</a>, who also ran a successful campaign to kill an <a href="http://www.defendreagan.org/?Page=AboutUs">unfavorable CBS biopic of His Holiness the Gipper.</a> Small world. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.33662 Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:12:33 -0800 censorship farenheit911 freedomofspeach intellectualfreedom MichaelMoore Slagman