Internet, Free Speech and American Courts

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Internet, Free Speech and American Courts

Listen Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008 at 1:06 p.m. in Science

This month, a California judge issued an order to take down Wikileaks.org, a controversial website allowing users to anonymously leak secret documents online. Now privacy activists are concerned the decision could stifle speech on the web and discourage whistle-blowers. Kojo explores a case some are calling the Internet's version of the "Pentagon Papers".

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Guests

John Morris

Director of the Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project, Center for Democracy and Technology

Aden Fine

Senior Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union

Steven Aftergood

Director, Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists

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