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Nothing to hide argument
The nothing to hide argument claims surveillance threatens only wrongdoers, so innocent people need not fear it. Critiqued by Daniel Solove as conflating privacy with secrecy; countered by Richards and Snowden.
Palestine exception
Palestine exception: term coined by Michael Ratner (2013) for censorship and punishment of pro-Palestinian advocacy, chiefly on US campuses, documented by Palestine Legal and CCR (2015) and intensified after October 2023.
Patriot Act
The USA PATRIOT Act (P.L. 107-56, October 2001) expanded U.S. surveillance, records, and money laundering powers after 9/11; Section 215's bulk phone metadata program was struck down as unauthorized in ACLU v. Clapper (2015).
Right to keep and bear arms
Right to keep and bear arms: the Second Amendment individual right to possess and carry firearms, defined in Heller (2008), extended by McDonald and Bruen, limited by Rahimi, and rare among national constitutions.
Right to privacy
Right to privacy: legal and human right against arbitrary interference with private life, family, home, correspondence, and personal data. Rooted in Warren and Brandeis's 1890 essay, Griswold v. Connecticut, UDHR Article 12, ECHR Article 8, and the EU GDPR.
Second Amendment sanctuary
Second Amendment sanctuary: a US state, county, or city resolution or law pledging nonenforcement of gun-control measures deemed unconstitutional; borrowed from immigration sanctuary cities; about 1,200 local adopters; generally no formal legal effect.
Speakers' Corner
Speakers' Corner is the open-air public speaking site at the north-east edge of London's Hyde Park near Marble Arch, established by the 1872 Parks Regulation Act after the 1866–1867 Reform League protests; anyone may speak on any lawful subject, traditionally on Sundays.
Timeline of Wikipedia–U.S. government conflicts
Timeline of disputes between the Wikimedia Foundation and the U.S. government: the 2012 SOPA blackout, the Wikimedia v. NSA upstream surveillance lawsuit (2015-2023), transparency reporting, and 2025 Senate scrutiny of Wikipedia content.