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American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
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The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression is the bookseller's voice in the fight against censorship. Founded by the American Booksellers Association in 1990, ABFFE’s mission is to promote and protect the free exchange of ideas, particularly those contained in books, by opposing restrictions on the freedom of speech; issuing statements on significant free expression controversies; participating in legal cases involving First Amendment rights; collaborating with other groups with an interest in free speech; and providing education about the importance of free expression to booksellers, other members of the book industry, politicians, the press and the public.
· ABFFE continued fighting to defend the privacy of bookstore records, educating booksellers about the impact of the USA PATRIOT Act through the ABFFE newsletter, ABFFE Update, which provided regular reports on the ongoing battle in Congress about adding protections for reader privacy to the PATRIOT Act.
· ABFFE participated in three ACLU cases about reader privacy: a librarian’s legal challenge to a National Security Letter (NSL) seeking information about a patron’s Internet search on a library computer, a challenge to the constitutionality of Section 215, and an effort to invalidate an NSL issued to an Internet service provider. All three cases have been argued; decisions are pending.
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English
