Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. July 17, 2009. Pot has lots of medicinal and financial benefits, but TV stations still do everything they can to avoid mentioning it.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. June 25, 2009. No legislation in the U.S. prevents the government from employing technology that monitors everything that goes through the Internet.
David Flumenbaum, Huffington Post. March 3, 2009. Networks serving over 300 million viewers in 53 countries muted, omitted or mistranslated anything gay-related in Oscars speeches.
Shannon Rupp, The Tyee. January 22, 2009. The ubiquity of porn has rendered it invisible for most adults. But why has pornographic imagery become such an acceptable part of public culture?
Dr. Marty Klein, AlterNet. August 29, 2008. Shocking but true: An American city, in the year 2008, asked a jury to declare that a movie of adults having sex is illegal.
Liz Langley, AlterNet. August 5, 2008. Porn editor Dian Hanson on art and porn, censorship, the mainstreaming of pornography and her experience as a woman working in adult entertainment.
Monica Shores, $pread Magazine. July 10, 2008. What's defined as healthy sexuality in this country is narrowly defined and schizophrenic -- and the government should not have final say.
Jessica Lee, Indypendent. June 10, 2008. Members of Congress are going after YouTube in their attempts to crack down on "Islamic terrorist organizations."
Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. June 10, 2008. The corporate giant is limiting free speech to cover its own ass.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. May 12, 2008. The government's attempt to gut a law protecting whistle-blowers does not bode well for our First Amendment rights.
Mirela Xanthaki, IPS News. May 7, 2008. Murder is the ultimate form of censorship. The more killings of media workers go unpunished, the more the press is silenced.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. April 30, 2008. The Web makes it easy for crowds to collaborate. But it also makes it simple for mobs to crush free expression.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 10, 2008. Why did "60 Minutes'" expose of how Karl Rove destroyed Don Siegelman's career not appear in its entirety on local Alabama stations?
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. February 28, 2008. Even after an Oscar win, Alex Gibney's controversial documentary about U.S. torture policy is having trouble getting distribution.
Larisa Alexandrovna, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. February 25, 2008. Are they trying to tell us that a glitch in New York ONLY happened in Alabama and ONLY during the Don Siegelman segment? Are you kidding me?
