Chinese protesters use comic subterfuge to evade government censors
With the Chinese government employing more than 50,000 censors to monitor the Internet for politically deviant opinion, bloggers are using humor and satire to get their message across before the...
View ArticleOpnion: The Stop Online Piracy Act would would adversely affect journalists
If passed in its present form, the Stop Online Piracy Act would subject articles to censorship in blocking articles from appearing on sites accused of piracy, writes Jessica Ray for 10,000 Words. Even...
View ArticleCNET provides guide to effects on public of Stop Online Piracy Act
A guide published by CNET describes the effects on the public of the Stop Online Piracy Act should it pass Congress and signed into law. The law would affect Internet free speech, security and...
View ArticleRuled not a journalist, Oregon blogger loses $2.5 million defamation suit in...
A blogger who wrote critical articles about an investment firm lost a $2.5 million defamation suit to the firm after an U.S. District Court judge ruled that she was not a journalist so not under the...
View ArticleD.C. appellate court rules for whistelblower’s anonymity
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled that a software trade association did not have to disclose the name of an anonymous tipster. Solers, a software company, had sued the trade association...
View ArticleAppeal in the works in Twitter/WikiLeaks case
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are set to file an appeal concerning the U.S. government’s attempts to obtain Twitter records in their investigation of...
View ArticleTwitter censorship plan provokes outrage
To cries of protest, Twitter announced last week that it will take a country’s laws and culture into account in conducting country-specific censorship. Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who is also the...
View ArticleFrench president’s proposal threatens Internet freedom
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is proposing that anyone regularly visiting websites supporting terrorism or advocating hate or violence will be arrested. First Amendment Center President Ken Paulson...
View ArticleFederal judge rejects key provision of Utah law holding websites accountable...
A federal district judge ruled that a provision of a Utah law could not be enforced that allowed prosecution of website operators and content providers for posting pornography. The law was designed to...
View ArticleA move to enhance email privacy
A San Francisco Chronicle tech writer finds hope that state or federal law will be changed to require warrants when law enforcement seeks individuals’ private emails stored by companies such as Google,...
View ArticleIn Russia, fears of Internet censorship
The Russian government has blocked access to material on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the name of protecting children, but others see it as a step toward wider Internet censorship, according to the...
View ArticleOpnion: The Stop Online Piracy Act would would adversely affect journalists
If passed in its present form, the Stop Online Piracy Act would subject articles to censorship in blocking articles from appearing on sites accused of piracy, writes Jessica Ray for 10,000 Words. Even...
View ArticleCNET provides guide to effects on public of Stop Online Piracy Act
A guide published by CNET describes the effects on the public of the Stop Online Piracy Act should it pass Congress and signed into law. The law would affect Internet free speech, security and...
View ArticleRuled not a journalist, Oregon blogger loses $2.5 million defamation suit in...
A blogger who wrote critical articles about an investment firm lost a $2.5 million defamation suit to the firm after an U.S. District Court judge ruled that she was not a journalist so not under the...
View ArticleD.C. appellate court rules for whistelblower’s anonymity
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled that a software trade association did not have to disclose the name of an anonymous tipster. Solers, a software company, had sued the trade association...
View ArticleAppeal in the works in Twitter/WikiLeaks case
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are set to file an appeal concerning the U.S. government’s attempts to obtain Twitter records in their investigation of...
View ArticleTwitter censorship plan provokes outrage
To cries of protest, Twitter announced last week that it will take a country’s laws and culture into account in conducting country-specific censorship. Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who is also the...
View ArticleFrench president’s proposal threatens Internet freedom
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is proposing that anyone regularly visiting websites supporting terrorism or advocating hate or violence will be arrested. First Amendment Center President Ken Paulson...
View ArticleFederal judge rejects key provision of Utah law holding websites accountable...
A federal district judge ruled that a provision of a Utah law could not be enforced that allowed prosecution of website operators and content providers for posting pornography. The law was designed to...
View ArticleA move to enhance email privacy
A San Francisco Chronicle tech writer finds hope that state or federal law will be changed to require warrants when law enforcement seeks individuals’ private emails stored by companies such as Google,...
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