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In November 1990, Simon and Schuster canceled its contract with author Bret E. Ellis to publish his novel American Psycho, citing the work's graphic violence and sexual brutality. The National Writers Union decried the cancellation as contrary to free speech and artistic expression and as censorship.
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legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/censorship
legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/censorship
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1918; Congress passes the Sedition Act, ... President Clinton revises his 1995 "Guidelines on Religious Expression in Public Schools" in an effort to promote public understanding of the fact that the First Amendment provides for religious expression by students simultaneously forbidding government-sponsored religion.
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www.chriscrutcher.com/content/blogcategory/59/48/
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Court rulings gradually shifted from a broad, forbidding position of the late 1950s to holding, ... Congress responded by passing the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) of 1998. ... The law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that it was overbroad and would also have hurt artistic expression. Ashcroft v.
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lawdigest.uslegal.com/internet/pornography/7276/
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Plaintiffs will undoubtedly suffer irreparable harm if the Act .... and most popular forms of artistic expression" and are "considered protected expression ... forbidding not violence itself, but pictures of violence, is a novelty"); Maleng, 325 F. .... That interest is nothing more than an interest in controlling ...
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www.jenner.com/files/tbl_s69NewsDocumentOrder/FileUploa...
www.jenner.com/files/tbl_s69NewsDocumentOrder/FileUpload500/723/Louisiana_Motion_for_TRO.pdf
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Nick: I intended "medium" in the sense of "artistic medium" not "digital medium", so we're on the same page. ... Let's ban all black clothing, rock music, videogames, television, movies, history books, newspapers, and the internet, and then there will NEVER be another random act of senseless violence again!
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www.bogost.com/watercoolergames/archives/columbine_vide...
www.bogost.com/watercoolergames/archives/columbine_video.shtml
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Paris had for a long time been considered the center of artistic expression as well as a literary and intellectual capital in Europe, even the western world. The art that was being produced in modern France bore witness to the country’s indefatigable ability to welcome change and inventiveness ... What made each one act?
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www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2002/3/02.03.06.x.h...
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2002/3/02.03.06.x.html
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Our legislators quietly slipped in an exception for "theatrical productions" so that actors and actresses could puff away onstage and the delicate flower of artistic expression could more fully flourish in the North Star State. ... It's not the Freedom to Breathe Act; it's the Freedom to Act Act. If you're a small bar...
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freedomtoact.com/
freedomtoact.com/
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But these unwanted consequences are a risk we take for free artistic expression. It is right and vital that no art of any kind should involve the actual abuse of children. ... To me a criminal act occurs when someone has either been robbed or harmed. The key test should be whether or not a child was violated.
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www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/31/justice.uk...
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/31/justice.ukcrime
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On appeal, Turner argued that PB2-21, the city ordinance forbidding topless sunbathing, was an unconstitutional infringement on her right to free expression under the first amendment. ... There is no requirement that nudity in contexts other than artistic expression must be accompanied by lewd, indecent interest for nudity...
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classweb.gmu.edu/jkozlows/lawarts/07JUL91.pdf
classweb.gmu.edu/jkozlows/lawarts/07JUL91.pdf
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