Since 1990 the Electronic Frontier Foundation has defended free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights online. Bogus copyright and trademark complaints have threatened all kinds of creative expression on the Internet. EFF’s Hall Of Shame collects the worst of the worst.

DeBeer’s attempt to take down New York Times Special Edition website is listed on the EFF’s Hall of Shame. I am proud.

In the summer of 2010, we asked artists and curators worldwide to record themselves responding and commenting on the following questions:

What are or should be the taboos honored by cultural institutions?
Why should public funds be spent to support artwork that might offend some segment of the general public?
Does “concern for the community” justify (self)censorship?
What alternative institutional models are emerging in the face of restrictive conditions attached to public funding?

The responses and creative comments of artists and curators worldwide are collected in Power, Taboo and the Artist, an ongoing video project produced by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.

I received this email today from a friend of Ebon Fisher’s.

It seems there is a nasty academic freedom and contract situation Stevens has created by dismissing Ebon Fisher and denying him access to his research materials.  It also appears that it results from his valor in standing up to a university policy of overwork and underpayment.  Having been in a similar academic sweatshop myself, it is particularly sad to see that an institute like Stevens is sullying its reputation as it starts to behave more like ITT Technical Institute, or DeVry.

I want to voice my strongest support for Ebon, and his work, and his academic freedom, and condemn the actions that Stevens has taken. This is a big stain on Stevens’ reputation, and is bad for academic freedom and labor relations in academia as a whole,