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- Judge: Child Online Protection Act unconstitutional
- Judge: Child Online Protection Act unconstitutionalThis is sick!I am so sick of hearing about some judge who is up on the First Amendment to the point that he is willing to jeapordize the safety of children. What rock did he crawl out from? After being involved with computer security for...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
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- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- IAB to FTC: Rescind blogger rules
- Completely self-servingBy this rationale, why does anyone ever have to disclose anything? You can apply this logic to traditional media as well. Afraid to admit in the blog that you got the stuff you rave about was free? The real impact is it opens a channel for the vendor to...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards
- Really at this point, can anybody be surprised to read this, in today's Washington Post: The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Final thoughts on supermodel-blogger catfight
- A few final thoughts on the "skank" blogger case. I was on The Jeff Farias Show Friday talking about this story. Jeff asked me if I was concerned about courts stomping on Internet anonymity and I said, generally, no, that courts must strike a balance between First Amendment rights of...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- News to know: Apple; Salesforce.com; CRM; Microsoft; PayPal
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable? DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Defamation or free speech? U.S. court orders Google to hand over identity of blogger
- If ordered by a judge...releasing the identity to the plaintiff is fair and necessary, otherwise you have no recourse.I will take issue with one statement however. You wrote "After all, it?s protected free speech to say that you believe someone is disingenuous or otherwise intolerable. It?s another thing to imply...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
- Actually, this is a 6th amendment issue.Namely, the right to face your accuser in a court of law. The anonymity was stripped because the woman intended to file criminal charges.Huh?The blogger was intending to sue the celebrity?The difference between free speech and defamationWhy do people think they can say ANYTHING...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
- Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Forget 99 cent smartphone apps, let's be fair to developers too
- Price floors don't help anyoneFirst, setting a minimum price is a price floor. Basic microeconomics teaches that this lowers demand and raises supply, generating an inefficient surplus. I don't see how that's good.Second, you seem to imply in this article that $0.99 apps are Apple's fault. They...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Modern threats to American liberty
- Modern threats to American libertyFreedom ain't free after all...That is why it is important to defend all of our freedoms, from the first to the last. Remember, the second amendment is the one that gives you the freedom to keep the others. It is all part of a pattern...Alexander Hamilton...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-04
- Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forward
- Bad news for the EFF's and ACLU's attempts to sue telephone companies for cooperating with the NSA. Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker rejected the groups’ lawsuits because Congress had passed the FISA amendment giving telecoms immunity. The groups plan to appeal on constitutional grounds. While...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Craigslist sues South Carolina AG, who backs off sort of; Download the complaint
- Craigslist said Wednesday that it is suing South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster for his "direct and public threats to criminally prosecute Craigslist and its management." As noted on the Craigslist blog, the classified ad site is seeking declaratory relief and a restraining order. For background, McMaster...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- What do you want for free? Do users have to pay up to complain?
- What do you want for free? Do users have to pay up to complain?The right to complain is a part of our First Amendment rightsSo I say complain away. But I wouldn't expect any results unless there was a monetary incentive.RE: What do you want for free? Do users have...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Should drug companies know what the doctor prescribed
- One of the big controversies heading for the Supremes Court's docket soon will probably be the case of IMS Health vs. Ayotte. It's an interesting test case on what data can do for medicine, asking whether we want it done or not. At issue...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Net access no fundamental right
- Net access no fundamental rightSo let's all be barefoot and pregnant then.Especially in today's society where people with limited computer skills lose out for jobs, and how colleges demand students have broadband as a prerequisite as more and more classes have internet-based portions, or are completely internet-based...People need to keep...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Free speech wins privacy tug of war; Law students school Scalia
- As a newspaper journalist, I took pride in my abilities to dig through public records, sniff around court documents, dissect police reports and, yeah, even tap a handful of unconventional sources for the really-hard-to-find details about someone - all under the protections of the U.S. Constitution. So,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Google, Books and the Nature of Evil
- Google, Books and the Nature of Eviljust that simpleYou are wrong. Current copyright laws are wrong.Its just that simple.Join the LudditesJoin the Luddites with Rob Enderle et al. I never saw forward thinking coming from his direction.Google is doing the right thing and it upsets many people, mostly in...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- Student free speech vs. taxpayer rights
- Student free speech vs. taxpayer rightsThere are several issues at work hereFirst, the philosophy that all ideas have equal merit. It isn't true. A film that labels itself XXX (the MPAA doesn't give XXX ratings; it's done for promotional purposes by the movie maker) has zero merit. There is no...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- Student free speech vs. taxpayer rights
- While this is only peripherally related to educational technology, the recent uproar over free speech at the University of Maryland is worthy of consideration; it certainly appears that both sides of the debate have reasonable points that could have long-term impacts both IT and the humanities at the university (and...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
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