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counsel at the ACLU National Headquarters
in New York City, works as a litigator
and online activist to promote and protect
civil liberties in cyberspace. As counsel
for the plaintiffs in ACLU v.
Reno, she
is a primary architect of the landmark
case in which the Supreme Court declared
the Federal Communications Decency Act
unconstitutional. In addition to her
work on the federal level, Ann Beeson
has also fought and won the first two
cases challenging state efforts to censor
speech on the Internet: in New York State,
American Library Association v.
Pataki , and ACLU
v. Miller in
Georgia. She has also opposed the use
of filtering
software in public libraries and fought
internet censorship by universities.
The Los Angeles Times named
her one of six "Stars of the Internet" for
her work in protecting free speech, and
she has been profiled by CNET as an "Internet
Newsmaker". Before joining the ACLU,
she worked for Human Rights Watch ,
advocating for the application of international
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