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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Free Speech</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF" TEXT="000000">
<H6><A HREF="/blueribbon/france.html">Introduction en Français</A></H6>
<CENTER>
<IMG WIDTH=480 HEIGHT=91
SRC="http://www.eff.org/pub/Graphics/Icons/BlueRibbon/rib_bar_wh_lg.gif"
ALT="THE BLUE RIBBON CAMPAIGN for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and
Association"><P><HR><P>
* <A HREF="http://www.aclu.org/">American Civil Liberties Union</A> *
<A HREF="http://www.cdt.org/">Center for Democracy & Technology</A> *<BR>
* <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation</A> * <BR>
* <A HREF="http://www.epic.org/">Electronic Privacy Information Center</A> *
<A HREF="http://www.vtw.org/">Voters' Telecommunications Watch</A> *
<BR>
<BR><HR><BR>
</CENTER>
<I>Last updated: 3:10pm PDT, Apr. 29, 1996.</I><CENTER><P>
<TABLE BORDER=5 CELLPADDING=5 CELLSPACING=3>
<TR ALIGN=CENTER>
<TD><A HREF="#intro">Blue Ribbon Intro</A></TD><H4></H4>
<TD><A HREF="#graphics">Blue Ribbon Graphics</A></TD><H4></H4>
<TD><A HREF="/BlueRibbon/activism.html">ACTIVISM</A></TD><H4></H4>
</TR><TR ALIGN=CENTER>
<TD><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/index.html#cda">Fed. US
Update</A></TD><H4></H4>
<TD><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/Foreign_and_local/">Global
& State-Level Update</A></TD><H4></H4>
<TD><A HREF="#others">Other Blue Ribbon Pages</A></TD><H4></H4>
</TR><TR ALIGN=CENTER>
<TD><A
HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/">Archive</A></TD><H4></H4>
<TD><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/BlueRibbon/sites.html">Sites That
Could be Banned</a></TD><H1></H1>
<TD><A
HREF="http://www.eff.org/BlueRibbon/skeptical.html">Skeptical?</A></TD>
</TR></TABLE></CENTER>
<P>
<I>Send questions about the Blue Ribbon Campaign to <A
HREF="mailto:ask@eff.org">ask@eff.org</A></I> <HR><P>
<CENTER><B>Full text</B> of the <A
HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/s652_hr1555_96_draft_bill.excerpt">
Communications Decency Amendment (CDA)</A> of
the <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/s652_hr1555_96.act">1996
Telecommunition Act</A> and <A
HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/cda_020296_eff.statement"> EFF's
analysis of it.</A><P><HR><P></CENTER>
<H3><A NAME="intro">Blue Ribbon Campaign Introduction</A></H3>
A blue ribbon is chosen as the symbol for the preservation of
basic civil rights in the electronic world. The blue ribbon is of course
inspired by the yellow POW/MIA and red AIDS/HIV ribbons, and also by
the various (U.S.) Second Amendment, child abuse, Israel awareness, and
public land usage rights blue ribbons, the breast cancer pink ribbon, etc.<A
HREF="http://www.eff.org/BlueRibbon/disclaim.html">*</A><P>
EFF and other civil liberties groups ask that a blue ribbon be worn or
displayed to show support for the essential human right of free speech.
This fundamental building block of free society, affirmed by the U.S.
Bill of Rights in 1791, and by the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights in
1948, has been sacrificed in the 1996 Telecom Bill.
<P>
The Blue Ribbon will be a way to raise awareness of these issues, from
locally to globally, and for the quiet voice of reason to be heard.
<P>
The voice of reason knows that free speech doesn't equate to sexual
harassment, abuse of children, or the breeding of hatred or intolerance.
<P>
We insist that any material that's legal in bookstores, newspapers, or
public libraries must be legal online.
<P>
See immediately below for info on how to get Blue Ribbon
graphics for your WWW pages.
<BR><HR><BR>
<H3><A NAME="graphics">Blue Ribbon Graphics</A></H3>
<B>All Web users are strongly encouraged to place a Blue
Ribbon graphic on their servers, such as the ones below. </B>
(Click on each to download if your browser requires this.)
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Graphics/Icons/BlueRibbon/rib_wh_brdr.gif">
<IMG SRC="http://www.eff.org/pub/Graphics/Icons/BlueRibbon/rib_wh_brdr.gif"
WIDTH=98 HEIGHT=181
ALT="[Big Blue Ribbon icon - click here to download] "></A>
<A HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Graphics/Icons/BlueRibbon/rib_bar_wh.gif">
<IMG SRC="http://www.eff.org/pub/Graphics/Icons/BlueRibbon/rib_bar_wh.gif"
WIDTH=143 HEIGHT=30 ALT="[Small version - click here to download] "></A>
<A
HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Graphics/Icons/BlueRibbon/rib_support_blk.gif">
<IMG SRC="http://www.eff.org/pub/Graphics/Icons/BlueRibbon/rib_support_blk.gif"
BORDER=0 ALT="[Square Blue Ribbon icon, black background, text:
'Supporting Free Speech on the Net' - click here to download]"
WIDTH=90 HEIGHT=79></A>
<P>
NOTE: You do <B>NOT</B> need to ask for permission to use these graphics.
They are public domain, created either by EFF, or by people who have
voluntarily donated new icons to the collection.
<P>
If you would like to point your Blue Ribbon icon at EFF's Blue Ribbon page
(the page you are reading now), you can add this <A
HREF="http://www.eff.org/BlueRibbon/bluehtml.html">HTML Anchor</a> to
your homepage (or a similar one, pointing to <A HREF="#others">
another Blue Ribbon Site</A>).<P>
<A HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Graphics/Icons/BlueRibbon/">Many other
versions are available</A>, including borderless, transparent,
grey and black backrounds, smaller versions, an outline version, and a
textless version for
incorporation into larger banners (as a standalone icon, please use the
versions with text, so people have some idea that there IS a Blue Ribbon
Campaign and what it is about when they first encounter it - not everyone
has
a color monitor, so the verbal name of the campaign is important to pass
around.) Thank you for
your support and activism, and remember - it's <I>YOUR</I> rights you are
fighting for! Wear a real blue ibbon, so people ask you what it's all
about.
<P>
If you are not sure why you need to participate in the Blue Ribbon
Campaign and stand up
for your free speech, or uncertain how your rights are threatened,
please see our <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/index.html#exon">
Internet Censorship Legislation Alerts Page</A>
<BR><HR><BR>
<A NAME="others"><H3>Other Blue Ribbon Pages</H3></A>
Here are some other sites providing Blue Ribbon pages. You might wish to
refer people to one of these sites as well as or in place of ours. This
will help reduce load on our system, and help spread the word into other
online communities (e.g. via having someone within each community provide
a Blue Ribbon page, rather than everyone having to figure out who we are
and how we relate to their interests) This is *not* a list of people
supporting the Blue Ribbon Campaign and putting Blue Ribbons on their WWW
pages - there are already thousands!<P>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www2.eff.org/blueribbon.html">EFF Local machine(s)</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.cdt.org/speech.html">Center for Democracy and
Technology</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.vtw.org/speech">Voters' Telecom Watch</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://mirrors.yahoo.com/eff/blueribbon.html">Yahoo!</A>
<LI><A
HREF="http://www.mckinley.com/mckinley-txt/freespeech.html">Magellan
(McKinley Group)</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.currents.net/blueribbon.html">Computer Currents
Interactive</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.hotwired.com/special/indecent/">HotWired</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.hotwired.com/userland/theblueribbon_489.html">Dave Winer</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.nuvo.net/darkness/">Digital Shout</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.surfwatch.com/surfwatch/censorship.html">Surfwatch</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.planet.net:80/emperor/free.html">Emperor &
Jammer (a rebellious spin on the concept)</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/~rmt/protest.html">Ryan Thornburg</A>
<li><A HREF="http://www.umsl.edu/~muns/blueribbon/1.htm">Raleigh Muns,
UM-St. Louis Reference Librarian</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.unc.edu/~rmt/">Ryan Thornburg</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/karl/">Karl Simanonok</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon/">Teleport</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.iglou.com/blueribbon/">IgLou Internet Services</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.efn.org/~iahu/speak.htm">Eugene Free-Net</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.dreamscape.com/buck/home/censorship/censorship.html">
Buck</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.borg.com/~thepulse/eff/blueribbon.html">The Pulse Online</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.acropolis.gr/a/blue_ribbon.html">Acropolis Net
(sta Ellinika - in Greek)</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.io.org/~sherlock/doom/doom.html">Digital
Doomsday</A> - a countdown clock of the threat to online civil liberties
</UL>
<BR><HR><BR>
For a humor break, see the <A HREF="http://www.cum.net/">CensorU Movement
(C.U.M.)</A> www pages - a parody of the theocratic right, with its own red
pro-censorship ribbon. And there's the <A HREF="http://www.mediashower.com/ribbon">
Blue Ribbon Prank Page</A>, which
elaborately plays on the theocratic party line that "indecency =
pornography". Also, the <A
HREF="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/The_Doctor/fruit.htm">Free
Peaches Online</A> mock-campaign might cheer you up.
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