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The Center For Democracy and Technology is a non-profit public interest organization that works for public policies advancing civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies. Read about issues in human and civil rights as they relate to technology.
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The existence of some claimed civil liberties is a matter of dispute, as are the extent of most civil liberties. Controversial examples include reproductive rights, same-sex marriage, possession of guns/arms, and the use of certain drugs. Another matter of debate is the suspension or alteration of certain civil liberties in times of war or state of emergency, including whether and to what extent this should occur.
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The Freedom House Annual Survey employs a Civil Liberties checklist to help monitor the progress and decline of human rights worldwide. Each country is rated on a seven-category scale, 1 representing the most free and 7 the least free. These 7 categories are laid out below.
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[One] casualty in the war against civil liberties in this country since September 2001 is the right to academic freedom. Professors and students who diverge too much from the current political and economic orthodoxy are being silenced around the country.
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This case, as well as a few other moderately publicized controversies over student rights, illustrates that conservatives aren’t going to be the leaders for the next civil liberties fights. They’ve been at the barricades for conservative college students censured by their administrations, or just ostracized by fellow students, but they’re not going to go anywhere near two high school juniors who don’t want to take a drug test, or a Virginia high school student suspended for having blue hair, or Ohio students suspended for involvement with a gothic web site.
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(KCPW News) It's almost cliché to say the Bush Administration is one of the worst when it comes to civil liberties. In fact, many academics say this administration has committed so many abuses of civil rights - warrantless wiretapping, holding suspected terrorists without charging them with a crime - the race is now for the second worst civil rights administration.
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