{"id":1189,"date":"2012-01-03T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T09:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/03\/video-how-fans-of-firefly-stopped-censorship-on\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:21","slug":"video-how-fans-of-firefly-stopped-censorship-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/03\/video-how-fans-of-firefly-stopped-censorship-on\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: How Fans of &#8216;Firefly&#8217; Stopped Censorship on One College Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/923501457\/video-how-fans-of-firefly-stopped-censorship-on-one-college-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/923501457\/video-how-fans-of-firefly-stopped-censorship-on-one-college-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/EwDyWGf39FV4tmqn873-3jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> College campuses would seem to be ripe environments for intellectual diversity to flourish. But rather than celebrate free speech, academic institutions across America routinely censor student publications and individuals.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/01\/02\/video-how-fans-of-firefly-stopped-censorship-on-one-college-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via blog.heritage.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties College campuses would seem to be ripe environments for intellectual diversity to flourish. But rather than celebrate free speech, academic institutions across America routinely censor student publications and individuals.Via blog.heritage.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":384,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/11\/11\/students-embarrass-rick-perry-with-explicit\/","url_meta":{"origin":1189,"position":0},"title":"Students Embarrass Rick Perry With Explicit Questions About Gay Sex During College Visit \/ Queerty","author":"aslam","date":"November 11, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"Appropriate impropriety.Students Embarrass Rick Perry With Explicit Questions About Gay Sex During College Visit \/ Queerty","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1617,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/21\/charlie-rose-on-iranian-reform\/","url_meta":{"origin":1189,"position":1},"title":"Charlie Rose on Iranian Reform","author":"aslam","date":"June 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesWatch Charlie Rose\u2019s interview with Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Haleh Esfandiari, Director of the Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, & Ervand Abrahamian of Baruch College on the current climate of reform in IranShow original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1926,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2019\/12\/09\/the-_real_-fake-news-from-three-us-administrations\/","url_meta":{"origin":1189,"position":2},"title":"The _real_ fake news, from three US administrations","author":"aslam","date":"December 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/investigations\/afghanistan-papers\/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents\/ U.S. officials misled the public about the war in Afghanistan, confidential documents reveal - Washington Post The lying had already taken hold when the duping began to sell the Iraq war. 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