Portal:Freedom of speech/Selected anniversaries/December


 * 4 December 1967 – 500 protesters witnessed 88 draft cards collected and burned
 * 9 December 2001 – American Civil Liberties Union files lawsuit on behalf of Sierra over Katie Sierra suspension controversy
 * 20 December 2006 – Stolen Valor Act signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush; later ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court of the United States as an abridgment of the freedom of speech under the First Amendment
 * 26 December 2006 – Early development in AACS encryption key controversy (Free Speech Flag pictured) &mdash; person using the alias muslix64 published a utility named BackupHDDVD and its source code on the DVD decryption forum at the website Doom9