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                    [Title] => Free speech online should not include incitement to violence
                    [Summary] => 

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, it became popular to cite George Bernard Shaw’s famous words: “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.”

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-07 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1435649 [Title] => Ferguson Facebook case part of debate about online threats [Summary] =>

A Washington man who posted Facebook comments threatening a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer will avoid prison but has been ordered to stay off social media sites in a case that is part of a broader legal debate about when social media rants go beyond hyperbole and become a crime.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-20 03:12:26 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500701 [AuthorName] => Martha Bellisle [SectionName] => Technology [SectionUrl] => technology [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/pilipino-star-ngayon/bansa/20150302/Facebook.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1347603 [Title] => Baker appeals order to provide gay wedding cakes [Summary] =>

A Lakewood baker is appealing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission's order that he prepare wedding cakes for gay couples.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-18 04:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1324049 [Title] => Lawsuit could delay sale of Sterling shares [Summary] =>

A cadre of attorneys and a flurry of lawsuits could certainly slow down the NBA’s plan to force Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers over his recent racist comments, but legal experts say the league would likely prevail in the end.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1308338 [Title] => High court voids overall contribution limits [Summary] =>

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down limits yesterday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and political action committees.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-03 03:13:03 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500180 [AuthorName] => Mark Sherman [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1303477 [Title] => Anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps Sr. dies at 84 [Summary] =>

The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the fiery founder of a small Kansas church who led outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and U.S. soldiers, on America's tolerance for gay people, has died. He was 84.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-21 04:40:05 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1404747 [AuthorName] => John Hanna [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://imageshack.com/a/img41/9202/xnzh.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1267635 [Title] => California city OKs parade despite gay exclusion [Summary] =>

A Southern California city granted a private group a permit Wednesday night to hold a Vietnamese new year's parade, despite objections over its exclusion of the community's gay and lesbian residents.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-13 04:09:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9095/2syr.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1259195 [Title] => NSA violations compared to Obamacare website ills [Summary] =>

The intelligence community's top lawyer on Tuesday defended the surveillance violations by staff of the National Security Agency by comparing programs that collect mass amounts of information on Americans to problems with the troubled health care website.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-21 02:34:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1301891 [AuthorName] => Eileen Sullivan and Kimberly Dozier [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1257448 [Title] => Transgender Texas student's tuxedo photo approved [Summary] =>

A Texas school district reversed course on Friday, saying it will allow a photo of a transgender student wearing a tuxedo to appear in the teen's high school yearbook.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-16 10:27:24 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1429862 [AuthorName] => Juan A. Lozano [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/756/44n4.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1247753 [Title] => AP CEO: Press freedom v. security a 'false choice' [Summary] =>

Governments that try to force citizens to decide between a free press and national security create a "false choice" that weakens democracy, and journalists must fight increasing government overreach that has had a chilling effect on efforts to hold leaders accountable, the president and CEO of The Associated Press said.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-21 02:50:26 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1237146 [AuthorName] => Colleen Slevin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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