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[News] More Suppression of Free Speech and Even Surveillance

  • Subject: [News] More Suppression of Free Speech and Even Surveillance
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:07:47 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Glenn Beck loses and wins domain name case

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| Conspiraloon Glenn Beck has lost, but also 
| won, a case to win control of a domain he 
| believed was infringing his copyright.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/beck_domain/

Big Win in Telecom Lobbying Documents Battle - Government to Turn Over Some Records This Week

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| EFF has big news in our long-running 
| Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) battle 
| over telecom lobbying documents: the 
| government will finally release some 
| additional records this week.
`----

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/big-win-telecom-lobbying-documents-battle-governme

How EFF saved Indymedia from an unconstitutional subpoena for all its visitors' IP addresses

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| When the US government demanded the IP 
| address of every visitor to Indymedia's 
| website (and ordered Indymedia to keep the 
| request secret), Indymedia called the 
| Electronic Frontier Foundation. EFF fought 
| the subpoena -- which was grossly 
| unconstitutional -- and won. Here's the 
| story of how it happened, and remember, if 
| you ever get a crazy, unconstitutional 
| request from a G-man, stop and call a 
| lawyer or get in touch with EFF.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/09/how-eff-saved-indyme.html

- From EFF's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena

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| Can the U.S. government secretly subpoena 
| the IP address of every visitor to a 
| political website? No, but that didn't stop 
| it from trying.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/effs-secret-files-anatomy-bogus-subpoena

Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists

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| Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux 
| administrator living in Philadelphia who 
| provides free server space for 
| Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to 
| receive the Justice Department's subpoena. 
| (The Independent Media Center is a left-of-
| center amalgamation of journalists and 
| advocates that â according to their 
| principles of unity and mission statement â 
| work toward "promoting social and economic 
| justice" and "social change.") 
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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml

Twittering From the Courtroom? Not So Fast

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| In United States v. Shelnutt (M.D. Ga. Nov. 
| 2), a federal court in Georgia ruled that 
| Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Criminal 
| Procedure prohibits âtweetingâ from the 
| courtroom and that Rule 53 does not 
| unconstitutionally restrict freedom of the 
| press.
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http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/11/twitter-from-the-courtroom-not-in-the-middle-district-of-georgia.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Home office bulls ahead with surveillance plans

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| BIG BROTHER BRITAIN is set to get even 
| worse with the government calling for 
| communications companies to closely monitor 
| citizens' Internet use. Except not yet, it 
| seems - see the Update below.
`----

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1561619/home-office-bulls-ahead-surveillance-plans


Recent:

Vietnam may shut down Vietnamese-American Web site

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| Authorities have recommended closing a Web site owned by an American man of
| Vietnamese origin for violating copyright rules and publishing "misleading"
| information about government policies, police said Monday.
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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/vietnam-may-shut-down-vietnameseamerican-web-site-20090216-89cq.html
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