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Example Blue Ribbon graphic EFF encourages websites to use.
The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and Association, or Blue Ribbon Campaign for short, is an online campaign for free speech on the Internet orchestrated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Web site owners are encouraged to place images of blue ribbons on their sites and link to EFF's campaign, to help spread the awareness of the threats to unrestricted speech. The campaign was launched immediately following the Black World Wide Web protest on February 2, 1996 and remained popular throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s.
The main reason for the launch of the campaign was the passing of the United States. The act was later turned over in large part, but EFF relaunched the campaign in 1998 to raise awareness of other legislation that they felt threatened the freedom of expression online.
External links
Official web site (http://eff.org/br/)
Launch message, as archived by Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4et7up%24d7e%40larry.rice.edu&output=gplain)
Blue is used also as a word to denote a sad or melancholy state, as in depression, or simply a state of deep contemplation (however, the phrase "blue skies," referring to sunny weather, implies cheerfulness).
Blue balls is a slang term for a temporary fluid congestion in the scrotum and prostate region.
Blue is associated with many air forces and navies because of the color of their dress uniforms, while green is associated with armies.
The spelling blue riband is still encountered in most English-speaking countries, but in the United States, the term was altered to blueribbon, and ribbons of this colour came to be awarded for first place in certain athletic or other competitive endeavours (such as county and state fairs).
In Victoria, Australia, the blueribbon is the symbol of remembrance for police officers killed in the line of duty [1].
In Zimbabwe, the term "blueribbon" is in reference to "blueribbon mills", the largest wheat refiner in the country.
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