Personal Freedom  

This page includes websites that defend individual rights and freedoms. These include freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from unlawful or arbitrary seizure and detention, and the right to privacy.

Privacilla
This organization works to protect the privacy of individuals from government and corporate intrusions. Its members believe that society functions best when the role of government is limited. To this end, it provides publicly-accessible information about privacy laws and personal rights.

FindHabeas
This organization strives to protect Americans from unlawful and indefinite detention. It members believe that the federal government is attempting to undermine the ancient protections against unreasonable detention, and that this threatens the constitution and the most basic of human rights. The FindHabeas website monitors the numerous court cases that have arisen as a result of this threat.

ACLU
This organization is one of the oldest protectors of American civil liberties. Over the years it has taken an active role in defending numerous individuals and groups from threats to their basic rights and freedoms. To many people, those threats seem to have become ever more menacing in recent years, so that the protections proviede by the ACLU and similar organizations are even more important now than in the past.

The Freedom Forum
The Freedom Forum is a nonpolitical foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum, the First Amendment and newsroom diversity.

InfoWars
This site reports on the growing efforts of governments and large corporations to control access to the internet, and to make it more difficult and expensive for individuals and small companies to operate websites. There are also reports on internet censorship and anti-competivive practices.

Other Categories  

• Social Causes
  Websites that speak out for the rights of repressed minority groups or neglected segments of society

• Political Dissent
  Websites that take unpopular political positions or call for radical changes to existing governmental systems

• Anti-Corporate
  Websites that oppose the policies and practices of large corporations and institutions. Such practices might include collusion, artificial price controls, exploitation of people, lobbying for special tax benefits, unfair awarding of contracts, and exploitation of natural resources.

• Alternative Information Sources
  Websites that publicize news and information ignored or suppressed by the mainstream media. Also includes groups that fight against governmental and private censorship.

• Religious Dissent
  Websites that oppose the beliefs and practices of major established religious groups, or that promote the beliefs of small lesser-known groups.

• Peripheral Science
  Websites which put forward theories about phenomena that lie outside the scope of conventional science.

• Alternative Healthcare
  Websites that oppose the policies of established healthcare systems and/or advocate alternative methods of treatment such as natural remedies.

• Skepticism
  This page lists websites which express doubts about majority opinions or offer counter-arguments to conventional beliefs. This can include commonly accepted ideas about political systems, religious practices, and social policies.

• Nature and Environment
  Websites and organizations that fight to protect the natural world from human exploitation and encroachment. This could include the advocacy of animal rights, the protection and expansion of park lands, and opposition to commercial development of unspoiled land.

• Other Resources
  Other useful online resources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and reference materials.

• More Resources
  Some additional resources.

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