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July 25, 2008

Families, Free Speech, and the FCC
By Harvey Silverglate

“Hide your children! The British are coming!!”

From the mouths of militiamen came the now-famous warning: the British had invaded, and the time to fight for independence had arrived.

Today, nearly a quarter-millennium after the colonists’ struggle, some citizens see a new threat after the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals handed down two key free speech decisions this week.

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