Ombudsman columns
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Why the panic over online information?
Ombudsman It's the same data already filed in other forms, but we seem willing to shut off electronic information at the drop of a hat.
12.13.99
When First Amendment principles go global
Ombudsman News media should have been better prepared to cover World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, because nothing organizes ordinary people like attempts by governments or elites to shut them up and shut them out.
12.06.99
Another community faces a Net loss in freedom
Ombudsman The Herrick District Library serves the city of Holland and the townships of Holland, Park and Laketown in Michigan. The staff and board work hard to make sure that patrons enjoy and benefit from their library experience, including accessing the Internet on the library's computers.
11.30.99
There is a price to pay for muzzling a murderer
Ombudsman 'Shut up or die' isn't the kind of choice one expects to have to make in a democratic society. But that was the choice recently presented to Aaron McKinney while on trial in Laramie, Wyo., for murdering Matthew Shepard.
11.22.99
Teaching freedom where it doesn't exist
Ombudsman NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Thirty-seven elementary and secondary teachers from Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee gathered at the First Amendment Center this past weekend for a conference designed to give them materials and training to better teach their students about the First Amendment.
11.08.99
Too often public is injured in collision of rights
Ombudsman The judicial system always seems to want something from the press and the press something from the judicial system. Seldom is either satisfied.
11.01.99
Fear and trembling over Pokemon and watch fobs
Ombudsman In ever-increasing numbers Americans are patrolling the aisles of toy stores, cruising grocery store checkout lanes, poring through schoolbooks and surfing the Net and TV in search of sex, violence and assorted other threats and insults to home and family.
10.20.99
Struggling to survive, First Amendment faces new century
Ombudsman The 'state of the First Amendment' is not good. Indeed, after more than two centuries of service to both humanity and democracy, it is locked in a struggle for survival.
10.11.99
Will we trade our freedom for civility?
Ombudsman The United States Senate Rules Committee has been debating whether to create a special committee, task force or commission on American culture. The sponsors of the proposal want to inquire into whether Hollywood entertainment is creating a violent and profane culture that threatens the morality of America's youth.
09.27.99
Are we saving the Net or censoring for dollars?
Ombudsman Earlier this month, an international media conglomerate and the Internet Content Ratings Association convened an Internet Content Summit in Munich, Germany, to present 12 recommendations for taming the rambunctious Internet. The key recommendation was for an international rating system that would enable the filtering of content.
09.20.99
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