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Bill Would Declare Your Blog a Weapon
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| Law prof Eugene Volokh blogs about a US House of Representatives bill
| proposed by Rep. Linda T. Sanchez and 14 others that could make it a federal
| felony to use your blog, social media like MySpace and Facebook, or any other
| Web media 'to cause substantial emotional distress through "severe, repeated,
| and hostile" speech.' Rep. Sanchez and colleagues want to make it easier to
| prosecute any objectionable speech through a breathtakingly broad bill that
| would criminalize a wide range of speech protected by the First Amendment.
| The bill is called The Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, and if
| passed into law (and if it survives constitutional challenge) it looks almost
| certain to be misused.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/05/1734238&from=rss
Net neutrality and bandwidth caps don't matter
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| If it isn't about bandwidth, then what are all these quotas about? Keeping
| the cable TV monopoly a monopoly. No, really, it is. The set up goes like
| this. Cable companies whine about bandwidth, then trial all sorts of silly
| anti-consumer and illegal measures like DPI to fire people up. Angry
| consumers respond and say that they will not tolerate those measures.
| Eventually, even paid for politicians will chime in around election season,
| and these 'alternate' measures will be shot down. DPI and packet
| classification will be effectively outlawed. That is OK though, they were
| straw men.
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| From there, cable companies will keep whining about bandwidth overuse, and
| the 'few' who 'abuse' the system. This is also a straw man, but they will
| claim usage quotas are necessary to keep the 'abusers' from hurting others,
| keep piracy down, keep their routers from melting, allowing them to make
| enough to pay for upgrades, or whatever is the current problem in the
| headlines. Think of it like The War on Communism/Drugs/Terror/Free Thought,
| the enemy is out there and undefinable, so don't question our motives.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1052029/net-neutrality-bandwidth-caps-matter
Recent:
Germany not a hard-line censor after all
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| Beasts Associated were suitably unimpressed by this action and issued a
| statement (pdf) saying: "As a result of Mr. Reppe behaving in a manner that
| contravened the terms of the contract, notice of termination of his contract
| was issued as long ago as the start of December 2008, with the contract due
| to end on 30 March 2009, once the period of notice expired.
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| "No objection was submitted in respect of the termination, and no legal
| action is pending against the termination."
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| They also warned Reppe that he should move his domains to another registrar
| as his domains would be placed "in transit" after March 31.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/15/german_wikileaks_bungle_subscription/
Germany deletes WikiLeaks.de domain after raid
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| Acording to claims of German registration authority DENIC, the Wikileaks.de
| domain has been sent to DENIC by the Internet domain registrar, "Beasts
| Associated" and therefore is "In Transit". The registrar claims this had
| happened as a consequence of "contract breach" by the domain owner. WikiLeaks
| has open questions that cannot be answered at this point in time. It also
| remains unclear whether the "breach of contract" is related to content on the
| website or administrative issues. An update will be posted as soon as we have
| all information required to assess the situation.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Germany_muzzles_WikiLeaks
Why, Actually, Are They Hiding ACTA?
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| Given that a draft is now available, and that others will doubtless follow,
| the best thing would be for for the ACTA nations to acknowledge that we live
| in different, more open times, and to embrace them. Let them release an
| official ACTA draft for everyone to comment on – and not just the chosen few
| that are permitted to walk the hallowed corridors of power.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2085&blogid=14
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