Tech giants near agreement on human rights code: “Some of the biggest technology and internet companies in the world have agreed a set of standards to protect human rights online that they hope the whole…
Times Higher Education: Researchers have no ‘right’ to study terrorist materials 17 July 2008, By Melanie Newman Nottingham v-c warns that academics may face prosecution. Melanie Newman reports Academics have no ‘right’ to research terrorist…
XSF ’08 Legal Seminar Available for Viewing Online: “The Legal Obscenities seminar that took place at XBIZ Summer Forum ’08 is now available for viewing on the event website. The seminar features an outstanding lineup…
Mirror campaigns? So 1990s…. 🙂 Swedish spy agency sics lawyers on wiretap critic: “ Whose free speech is it anyway? Swedish spy authorities have taken legal action against a Brussels-based blogger who published a classified…
David Edgar: This muddled terror law limits free speech and wrecks innocent lives: Comment is free, The Guardian: The glorification clause of the Terrorism Act has created a climate where artists and academics must watch…
Court Upholds Ruling on Internet Content Law: “A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the…
Net Censorship Law Struck Down Again: “A federal appeals court struck down yet again a law that would have required websites to verify all visitors’ ages if any of its content wasn’t suitable for minors….
Court Affirms Online Content Law Unconstitutional: “A federal appeals court agreed with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content…
Once Again: Court Says That COPA Anti-Porn Law Is Unconstitutional: “After the Supreme Court rejected most of the Communications Decency Act as being unconstitutional, Congress tried again with the more friendly sounding Child Online Protection…
Max Mosley case: bend over, free speech, this is going to hurt: “In a chamber of the Royal Courts of Justice last week sat Max Mosley, grandee of motor racing and fan of sadomaso-chism. I…