Illegal T-shirt

Court Action

Cases of T-shirts or T-shirt wearing that have been at one stage illegal or subject to legal challenge.

RSA

A 4 line perl inplimentation of RSA encryption and its 8 line barcode equivalent were printed on a shirt. This shirt was technically illegal to export from the USA, or even for it to be viewed by a foreigner.

DeCSS

A perl implimentation of the algorithm used to decrypt DVD discs was printed on T-shirts. Under the DMCA it is illegal to reverse engineer copy protections or disemnate circumvention devices. T-shirts of this script were made to fund the Electronic Frontier Foundation defence againt a movie industry suit for making DeCSS public.

Anti-apartheid

The Truth and Reconcilation Commission heard that Robin Houston Holmes was charged for producing illegal material, i.e. T-shirts condemning apartheid. Refer to official TRC Statement. Styles included -
  • "We are Everywhere, Even in your Kitchen"
  • "Mxenge, The Struggle Continues"
  • Steve Bilko

Non-Court Actions

George W. Bush - International Terrorist

A high school junior in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, Bretton Barber, was asked to remove his anti-George W. Bush T-shirt in the lead up to the Iraq War. It featured a picture of GWB with the words "International Terrorist". He was asked to remove it because it supported terrorism. Refer to article High School tells student to remove shirt

Give Peace a Chance

In the lead up to the Iraq War, man was asked to leave a shopping mall by a security guard because of his "Give Peace a Chance T-shirt".

 

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