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...taught or debated; only condoned and stylish beliefs can be promulgated. But the process of self-victimization actually runs counter to the objectives of the BLSA’s own stated purpose of creating a “discriminatory harassment policy” to ameliorate ethnic insensitivity. As ACLU president, Nadine Strossen wrote in the Duke Law Journal, “Because civil libertarians have learned that free speech is an indispensable instrument for the promotion of other rights and freedoms—including racial equality—we fear that the movement to regulate campus expression will undermine equality...
...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a brief Wednesday defending a first-year Harvard Law School student’s right to crack protected computer code...
Edelman’s current research arose from previous work he did for the ACLU. The group picked Edelman to conduct research on Internet filtering software for their case challenging the Children’s Internet Protection Act, a federal statute that required public libraries to purchase and install filters...
Edelman offered expert testimony in the case earlier this year on his two-year study of filters, which included N2H2 Internet Filtering. The ACLU agreed to represent Edelman when the legal perils of his current research became evident...
Edelman and the ACLU hope to avert legal action by N2H2 down the road, claiming that filings issued by N2H2 constitute an explicit threat to take Edelman to court if he uncovers and publishes their filtering list...