ZPH has created a horizontal green ribbon icon and is encouraging managers of World Wide Web sites to place this on their own Internet Home Pages to demonstrate their support for the campaign. There are those, however, who tend to forget that they also are held accountable for their words. That's how laws against libel and slander are sustained. Words have a power all their own. At Zondervan Publishing House , we publish life-changing words.
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The advent of the Internet has seen a staggering growth in the potential for the freedom of speech and expression to people throughout the world. Sadly, in some quarters, this same freedom is being abused and used irresponsibly as a smoke screen to communicate in a vulgar, profane, violent, and insulting manner. A posting on a personal Web site contends, 'True freedom must be guarded from being confused with unrestrained licentiousness. If you agree that the true right of free speech is accurately carried out when self-restraint is responsibly exercised, please display the Green Ribbon for Responsibility in Free Speech on your Web site. Celebrating 65 years of publishing excellence, Zondervan Publishing House is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers.