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A Look Back 30 Years: Top 25 Censored News Stories of 1981 – #13. THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS IN JEOPARDY

The First Amendment is being assaulted and the censorship weapon is the libel law. Some of the cases — Miss Wyoming/Penthouse and Carol Burnett/National Enquirer — were well politicized. Others, involving free speech rights, were not. Pat Haworth protested a

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In Brazil, Courts Are Way Out of Line Censoring and Punishing Journalists

Source: BrazzilMag Brazilian freelance journalist and blogger Carlos Santos based in Mossoró, a town in Brazil’s northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, was ordered to pay 6,000 reais (3,600 euros) to charities for posting three allegedly defamatory comments about

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