Online Blue Ribbon-Speech Campaign (officially the Blue Ribbon Campaign for Freedom of Speech, Press and Online Associations ) is an online advocacy campaign for intellectual freedom on the Internet, governed by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Website owners are encouraged to place blue ribbon images on their sites and links to EFF campaigns. This is done so that they can help spread awareness of the threat to unlimited speech in new media.
Video Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign
History
The campaign was launched shortly after the passing of the Communications Compliance Act (CDA) in the United States on February 1, 1996, followed by the Black World Wide Web protest on February 8, 1996, and remained popular throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s. The Communications Decision Act was ruled unconstitutional by most of the Supreme Court on 26 June 1997 in a joint ACLU/EFF lawsuit. The EFF relaunched the campaign on June 15, 1998 to raise awareness of other laws that they felt threaten free online expression, especially the CDA follow-up bill, the Online Child Protection Act (COPA), was eventually canceled.
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External links
- General information
- "Your Constitutional Rights Have Been Sacrificed for Political Interests" in the Wayback Machine (archived on November 14, 1997). Electronic Frontier Foundation, February 1, 1996.
- "" Blue Ribbon Campaign "". Archived from the original in 1996-10-20. . Electronic Frontier Foundation, 1996.
- "Help Us Protect Free Online Speech!" - protest campaign by EFF
- The campaign launch message is archived from Usenet
- "EFF Urges Internet Users to Join a New Blue Ribbon Campaign to Oppose the Current Efforts to Censor the Internet". EFFector online bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 9; Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 15, 1998.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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