Description of Incident: In 2005 the FBI and US Attorney Generals office began investigating Fletcher's website. Concerned about the content of the site, government officials began filing charges against Fletcher and moving to have the site shut down. In September 2006, Fletcher was indicted on six counts of transportation of obscene matters over the internet.

Results of Incident: Fletcher was arraigned in federal court on October 17th, 2006. If convicted, she could face up to 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine. The case against Fletcher is pending.

Description of Incident: Many internet sites have been shut down by the government of Qatar. Qatar has focused on censoring pornography, political criticism of Gulf leaders and anti-Islamic sites.

Results of Incident: When trying to enter a censored site in Qatar, the page states, "The web page you are trying to access has been blocked by Internet Qatar as it contains materials which are prohibited in the State of Qatar"

Description of Incident: The Islamic Republic of Iran has placed strict restrictions on the public depiction of scantily-clad bodies and nudity. The voluptuous, dark and tormented nudes in Tabibzadeh's paintings have been strongly criticized by Iranians for being too cynical and too sexual. As a result of the content of her paintings, Tabibzadeh’s works have been banned from being exhibited in Iran where the depiction of any nudity is prohibited.

Results of Incident: Tabibzadeh's paintings have been censored by the Iranian government and not allowed to be displayed in public areas around Iran.

Description of Incident: As a result of the events that took place on 9/11, the United States government has blocked Hezbollah's satellite channel Al-Manar in the US. The censorship of Al-Manar came as part of the post 9/11 legislation, specifically in Executive Order 13224.

Results of Incident: The US has listed Al-Manar as a terrorist organization and banned it from viewing in the US.

Description of Incident: In a country still jittery after September's military coup, officials from the Ministry of Culture, an Orwellian body charged with protecting Thailand's heritage and morals, claimed that the opera Sucharitkul, who wrote the opera, which Sacharitkul wrote as a tribute to the Thailand's beloved King Bhumipol, would bring bad luck. A few days before the opera was set to debut, Thai ministry officials approached Sucharitkul forcing him to change his work or risk it being shut down.

Results of Incident: Ultimately, the opera went ahead, but Sucharitkul was warned that, if anything offended the "morals of Thailand", the ministry would intervene. Sucharitkul insists he refused to be censored: "Not a note or word was cut, but the ministry would hardly know that. They were willing to shut us down, based entirely on scenes that were rumoured to be in it. This is not about the death of Thotsakan. The issue is that the Culture Ministry should have nothing to do with regulating the arts at all." With Thailand grappling to find a workable and - if not democratic - liberal model, censorship raises questions about fundamental freedoms. Former senator Kraisak Choonhavan is organizing a meeting of artists to discuss the problem, but sees the ministry's actions as part of the "poverty of state policy of art and culture". The ministry says the matter is closed. "The final scene [of Ayodhya] was adjusted. The matter has ended rather well," said Prisana Phongthatsirikul, secretary-general of the National Culture Commission.

Description of Incident: Sleek magazine, a quarterly German art and fashion magazine that is published in German and English, commissioned videos from eight artists to enhance the theme addressed in their magazine, which for autumn was "East-West". Jonathon Hexner’s video entitled “I like America & America likes me” was chosen as one of the eight videos to be broadcast on a video screen 4 meters high and 50 meters wide above the offices of a publishing house in Berlin. However, shortly before the public display of Hexner’s video, Sleek changed its mind regarding the content of his work. The editors deemed Hexner's video to be inappropriately evocative of the Sept. 11 attacks and worried that the meaning of the video would be misunderstood and seen as anti-American. As a result, Sleek decided not to broadcast Hexner's work on a video screen above business offices in Berlin.

Results of Incident: The German art magazine Sleek canceled the public display of Hexner's video.

Description of Incident: The day after the class produced magazine Mute/Off was distributed, the administration at the Art Institute of California immediately banned it, confiscating all copies of the publication. A spokeswoman for the school stated that the magazine produced as a final project for Prof. Ovetz's class was confiscated because it had been distributed without first being submited it to the administration for review.

Results of Incident: After objecteing to the administration's confiscation of the provocative and controversial student magazine, Prof. Ovetz was fired from his teaching position. Ovetz and the students claim that administration has violated the First Amendment, as well as a state law protecting student publication from censorship by confiscating nearly all 500 copies of the magazine. In addition, Ovetz and the students say this is not the first time the Art Institute has censored students work restricting freedom of speech and expression. One student's project was banned in December from a student exhibition on "taboos", and in 2005 a student's alien sculpture was removed from the campus gallery after complains that it looked like a vagina. The issue/debate surrounding the administration’s censorship of the magazine and the job termination of Prof. Ovetz has yet to be resolved.

Description of Incident: Clear Channel Outdoor, one of the nation's leading outdoor advertising companies, removed a provocative billboard for gay.com in Boston after complaints from the conservative group Article 8 Alliance which opposes same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. The action by Clear Channel comes as a competitor, Lamar Advertising, refused to pick up an advertising campaign for Georgia Equality, a LGBT rights group, in some rural counties in the state.

Results of Incident: Clear Channel Outdoor company dropped Gay.com's campaign.

Description of Incident: Billboard company Lamar Advertising has rejected a series of ads from Georgia Equality, an LGBT rights group, that was scheduled to appear in the Fall of 2005 in rural parts of Georgia. Georgia Equality's campaign, entitled "We Are Your Neighbors", has been running in the Atlanta area on billboards owned by Clear Channel. Georgia Equality intended to expand their campaign, placing additional billboards in 38 rural counties in Georgia. However, Lamar Advertising, which owns 149,000 billboards, rejected the campaign.

Results of Incident: Lamar Advertising is the largest billboard operator in the rural areas of Georgia, but Georgia Equality is trying to find alternatives that will allow them to exhibit their message of tolerance, love and understanding.

Description of Incident: A series of billboards by Polish artist Karolina Bregula portraying same sex couples holding hands was rejected by the billboard company Lamar Outdoor Advertising of Hartford, which is refusing to run the images. Lamar's regional vice president and general manager, Steve Hebert, stated that the company was concerned that the images could be perceived as controversial, and perhaps be marked by graffiti.

Results of Incident: Lamar Advertising refused to run the billboards