These pages were originally created to protest the passage of the Communications Decency Act...We turned all our pages black for about 10 days...But there's more going on in the world...So we've expanded our sights...We're going beyond the free speech issue to the heart of the matter...

Please join us in our efforts...Explore these links and consider starting your own page of freedom issues...Wearing a blue ribbon and going black for a few days appearantly didn't have much of on effect on the American congress...

Download and use as many of the quotes on this page as you care to...Remember, we're all in this together...

The original page grew so large that it's been divided into three sections...There's a second wave of free speech now coming online... It looks like the internet is about to get involved...

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SUPREME COURT HEARS ORAL ARGUMENTS IN THE CDA CASE

Bruce Ennis, CIEC lead attorney, who argued the case on behalf of both the ACLU and CIEC Plaintiffs, discussed the case and the oral arguments at a special online event on March 19th. Audio transcripts are available online here...

Judith Krug of the American Library Association, lead plaintiff in the case, noted that the Justices ''paid special attention to the threat that the CDA would pose to libraries around the country seeking to use the Internet to provide greater public access to information.''

In questions to both Mr. Ennis and the Justice Department attorney defending the statute, the Justices probed the effectiveness of this statute as compared to software tools which empower parents to filter out inappropriate Internet sites whenever their children surf the web.

With a decision expected in late spring or early summer, coalition members expect that the issue will be back before the US Congress shortly.

FCC Recent Court Opinions Ever wonder what the FCC is up to in our court system? Page has regular updates.

• CyberWire Dispatch, 06 Feb 95 by Brock N. Meeks 'Forty-eight hours and a half bottle of Jack Daniel's into my 40th birthday and suddenly I knew what I had to do... Compress my pending mid-life crisis into one white hot shining moment.
  So I filed a lawsuit against the United States of America, calling the bluff of this bastard Congress, claiming the indecency provisions contained in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are unconstitutional.''
• Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition Court Challenge to the CDA TRIAL BULLETINS! CDT will provide a synopsis of the proceedings directly from the courtroom each day hearings are held.
• JOIN THE SUIT! It's not to late, watch this page for updates...
• Cyberspace Law Center is designed to be an evolving resource for those interested in legal issues concerning cyberspace.

"I saw the best minds of my generation...." [CENSORED]

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself...." [CENSORED]

"For information on where to obtain a safe, legal abortion...." [CENSORED]

Is this the Net we want in our future? Under the Communications Decency Act, signed into law by President Clinton with a flourish of his digital pen on 8 February, this is the Net we have.

• Cyberporn...a New Legal Bog
• SHAMELESS NUDITY! The city of the Silent
• Index on Censorship The magazine for free speech, widens the debates on freedom of expression with some of the world's best writers. Through interviews, reportage, banned literature and polemic, Index shows how free speech affects the political issues of the moment.
• And Adam Knew Eve A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible gathers from the biblical text all sexually related stories, concepts, and laws, and presents them, concisely but with attention to context, in convenient dictionary form.

  ''If you can't say 'fuck', you can't say 'fuck the government.'''
  -- LENNY BRUCE

• Books A to Z - Banned Books and Censorship
• Book Banning, Burning, and Censorship A multimedia exhibit including audio files from Salman Rushdie, Andrei Codrescu, and Sandra Coliver...An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all-- Oscar Wilde
• Indecent?? Books, movies, music, art, medical texts...Who turned out the lights? Is this the new dark ages?
• File Room is an illustrated archive on censorship which you can browse, as well as add cases to.
• Freedom of Expression Censor-bait Items the censors don't want you to see. We have seen their enemy and they is us...
• Biblical Indecency for the Theologically Correct
• Indecent Images Paintings by John William Waterhouse, John Collier, Henry Fuseli, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
• Banned Books On-lineBooks Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities
• Banned BookmarksTox's List of sites that will violate the indecency standard as layed out in the Hyde Ammendment to the Telecommunications reform bill
• Parent's Place Breast Feeding Resources
• Bonfire of Liberties - CENSORSHIP OF THE HUMANITIESThe bonfire was a very efficient form of censorship in an age when books were handwritten and existed in few copies. But in the era of printing and mass markets, burning a book has been reduced to merely a shocking gesture. To be effective, censors have had to devise other methods of restricting access to publications deemed offensive or dangerous.
• The Senator Jim Exon Memorial Webpage CENSORED
• Botticelli's The Birth of Venus
• Michelangelo's David
• How to Use a Condom...
• Members Like Asses - Indecent Biblical Passages
• Sen. Bob Packwood's Diaries The following are excerpts from Sen. Bob Packwood's diaries as released by the Senate Ethics Committee.
• The Internet Sanitized For Your ProtectionI know what Hell looks like. Imagine a world where no one is offended. A world where the level of discourse is brought down to the lowest common denominator. A world that is 'safe for children.' A world that does not go beyond the intellectual level of a Barney episode.

Now that the Communications Decency Act has passed, we urge all people wishing to use electronic communications, but forced to limit their language and thus risk confusion, to consider using the following list of substitute words, which we feel the Senators involved will be reluctant to ban or censor...

Byrd- Noun- The posterior or hinder parts, specifically the anus.
Coats- Noun- Excrement, or as a verb to excrete.
Exon- Verb- To copulate with, the act of copulation.
Gorton- Noun- The female genitals, or specifically the vagina.
Gramm- Verb- To achieve orgasm. Also colloquially used as a noun.
Heflin- Noun- The female secondary sexual characteristics.
Helms- Noun- The male phallus.

An example of this usage might be as follows...

'Exon me !', she cried, as I licked her hot wet Gorton. She writhed under my teasing tongue as her Gramm washed over her, her juices pouring out. I moved up to suck and nibble her Heflins, only to have her clutch my Byrd, and drive my aching Helms into her waiting Gorton. 'Coats !', she said, 'We're being quoted in a political text !'

• Civil Rights Abandoned in Lubok, Texas - Egress-1, a sysop in Lubock Texas, has been accused of being the Kingping of a child porn ring. This page is about how the accusation is false.
• Bellingham Obscenity Trial Archive
• Community Information, CENSORED Warning...Artist at Work...
• James NunnThe major purpose of this page is to provide a reference list for internet users within Australia, on the various legislation, policies, etc in place around our country and internationally.
• RTI Made Me Move My Pages
• Florida Datamation, Inc. and Michael S. Scheidell vs. Internet Users

Those who say it can not be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it. You can and should shape your own future; if you don't someone else surely will!

• The CITIZEN'S COALITION For COMMON DECENCYThe CITIZEN'S COALITION for COMMON DECENCY believes in a clean-thinking and clean-acting America. An America with strong moral principles. We are commited to the idea of legislating all communications, so that all improper, un-American thoughts may be thoroughly stamped out. The Internet is our new frontier, and we will fight our enemies, the purveyors of filth, subversion and free-thought everywhere we find it.
• Smut Baby And when Mommy wasn't looking, baby would press HERE.
• Internet Pornography Debate Resolved!
• Telecom Bill Bugs So you always wanted to be a hacker? Post any bugs you find in this bugfilled program...Here's an example...
  Title... Frank Zappa Bug
  Bug... I don't know about you guys, but I think that TELECOM 1.1 is a great game! I already beat the evil SEE PROMPT! The only bug I found is when you get to the stairs in level three, and the Tipper Gore Zombies start comin' after ya, the RED PEN SLASHER OOZIE doesn't work unless you click on the right mouse button while signin' the Frank Zappa tunes that ya downloaded in level two! Then it sorta 'zaps' the zombies. Lots a Gore all over the screen! Pretty cool graphics!
  I gotta tip for those of you that are still on level one. When the Doleminator comes chargin' after ya, git outta th' way! After he shoots off a few rounds he tires himself out and sits down to smoke a seegar! That's when you can WHACK him!
• Censor-U Movement Welcome to the CUM home page. We are purifying the Internet, and making it a fit place for our children. A place where sex is dirty and sick, where Netizens are as scared of the Net Police as Citizens are of the Real Police. A world with no privacy, where parents don't have to be responsible, and where once again, a small uptight minority can impose their morals on the natives of a new land.
• The eXonizer is here to protect you and your loved ones from the mountain of filthy, prurient slime that pervades every nook and cranny of the once-great World Wide Web.
• Baby's Protest
• EFF, The Electronic Fruit Foundation Why YOU should be fighting for your right to free peach!
• Net Nymph Net Nymph - The only software on the Internet that let's you view only pornography, without the annoyance, and nuisance of all other useless information.
• Regulate the Internet Your Way! Rewrite the Communications Decency Act of 1996. It's not civil disobedience -- it's just silly.

As Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, has noted, 'This law restructures the entire telecommunications industry and places the free speech and privacy rights of all Internet users in permanent jeopardy. For a Congress that says it wants to get big government out of people's lives, this law represents the most extreme hypocrisy.'

There's More to Tell, What Senator Exon Did to us...

• The Electronic Freedom March on Washington
• The Electronic Freedom March on Washington: Mailing List How to join the Electronic Freedom March mailing list
• The Electronic Freedom March on Washington: Latest News Latest News on the March
• Censorship and the Net--March on Washington

These pages are no longer black to protest the Communications Decency Act. They're black because it is the appropriate color for Net Censorship. Censorship is a means of oppression dating from the dark ages of mankind.

Three months ago it would have taken me a week or so to make my page black... Today it took me about 10 minutes to change about 18 pages... 48 hours is not enough...

How do I do it?

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