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Censorship And The First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right To Free Speech
Are we protected from censorship under the First Amendment? In other
words do individuals or groups have the right or the power to examine material
and remove or prohibit anything they consider objectionable? This argument has
been progressing for centuries, in fact the first notable case was against John
Peter Zenger, in 1743. Zenger was an editor of a New York colonial newspaper
that often published articles critical of the colonial governor. He
successfully argued that publishing the truth should be a defense and thus
defied the conventional wisdom and ended coloni ....
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