free speech

HOWL Against Censorship
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HOWL

For Carl Solomon

I

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machin-
ery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
up smoking in the supernatural darkness of

Collegian editorial sparks national uproar

Editor will defend job to BSC
By: AARON HEDGE
9/24/07

After a Friday editorial on page four in the Collegian that said "Taser this … F---BUSH" sparked national uproar and controversy regarding free speech, Editor in Chief J. David McSwane will go before CSU's Board of Student Communications (BSC) Tuesday to defend his job. The expletive was spelled out about twice the size of a headline.

BSC has authority sanctioned by the Board of Governors of the CSU System to fire the editor in chief.

McSwane and the Collegian Editorial Board are standing by the decision.

G DUBJul 23, 2007 1:03 pm US/Central
Vendor Arrested For 'Impeach Him' Buttons

(CBS News) KENSINGTON, Md. A 74-year-old retired mathematician who sells anti-Bush buttons at a Maryland farmers' market has become a symbol of free speech to some people. Others say Alan McConnell is a nuisance.

McConnell was at the market in Kensington as usual yesterday, selling buttons that say "Impeach Him" He has sold the $1 buttons for months; he told The Washington Post he uses the money earned to pay for "Impeach Them Both" yard signs.

Net NeutralityNet Neutrality: Myths and Facts

Myth: Net Neutrality would, for the first time, regulate the Internet.

FACT: Massive innovation on the Internet since its creation occurred under pre-2005 Net Neutrality protection. Until last year's Supreme Court Brand X decision, telephone and cable based Internet operators were required to make Internet service "available on nondiscriminatory terms and conditions to all comers." Net Neutrality simply restores long-standing prior law.

MYTH: Net Neutrality is a solution in search of a problem.