National Coalition Against Censorship

The National Coalition Against Censorship has joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation and several other civil liberties and press freedom organizations in demanding that the House Committee on Ways and Means immediately drop its unconstitutional inquiry into BreakThrough News.  In October, the Committee threatened to issue additional subpoenas to BreakThrough News, a nonpr...

(Photo By: Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltamore Banner) This week, U.S. Representative for Maryland Andy Harris participated in a public political debate; after the forum, he invited reporters to speak with him. A scrum of reporters surrounded Harris with visible recording devices, including University of Maryland student reporter Cat Murphy. Murphy encouraged [...]

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Like it or not, private companies have become the gatekeepers to so many of our rights. They deserve recognition on those rare occasions when they stand up for free speech.  Take Disney, owner of ABC, for example. When ABC began to draw the ire of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last year, the company [...]

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The National Coalition Against Censorship calls on the federal Department of Education (USED) to abandon its attempt to amend the Education Department General Administrative Regulations to create an ideological chokepoint for all grant money distributed. These grants are a vital part of the ecosystem of research and inquiry in educational institutions, and the threat [...]