Defending a neglected print medium
Cory and I had a lovely time recently meeting Charles Brownstein, who runs the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. CBLDF (based in my hometown of Northampton, MA!) is one of the country's recently founded civil liberties organizations.
Well, OK, it's older than EFF. And like EFF, it's really stepped up its litigation and membership efforts recently. The Fund and ABFFE are the only non-profit organizations I know that defend first amendment rights specifically in a particular medium without also being an industry or trade association. (I guess you can say EFF does the same for the Internet. It's funny now to think of the Internet as a whole as a "medium".)
Comics and video games are (like software, I might say) not most people's prototypical examples of protected speech. (I'm thinking in terms vaguely reminiscent of Lakoff here, but not in a rigorous way.) Brownstein told me about many laws that are still on the books that specifically target comics: some prohibit entirely the depiction of particular subjects or points of view! A lot of people have now heard about the extensive government and industry censorship of comics earlier in this century, but it turns out that some of the laws were never actually repeealed. Now the defense of the video games and software will have to be left to others, but you can do something for the comics by making a donation to CBLDF. It's a worthy cause.
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