Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign

The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and Association, or Blue Ribbon Campaign for short, is an online campaign for free speech on the Internet orchestrated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Web site owners are encouraged to place images of blue ribbons on their sites and link to EFF's campaign, to help spread the awareness of the threats to unrestricted speech. The campaign was launched immediately following the Black World Wide Web protest on February 2, 1996 and remained popular throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s.

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Campaign - Free speech - Internet - Electronic Frontier Foundation - Web site - Blue ribbon - Black World Wide Web protest - February 2 - 1996 - 1990s - 2000s

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The main reason for the launch of the campaign was the passing of the Communications Decency Act in the United States. The act was later turned over in large part, but EFF relaunched the campaign in 1998 to raise awareness of other legislation that they felt threatened the freedom of expression online.

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Communications Decency Act - United States

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