-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
E-commerce Regulations updated to exempt ISPs from hate speech charges
,----[ Quote ]
| The E-Commerce Directive protects service
| providers from liability for material that
| they neither create nor monitor but simply
| store or pass on to users of their service.
| The Directive is implemented in the UK by
| the E-Commerce Regulations.
`----
http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=10664
Sometimes Protecting Free Speech Means Protecting Speech You Don't Like
,----[ Quote ]
| But rather than just demand the takedown of
| the specific content in question, the judge
| ordered the sites taken down completely,
| and even a Facebook group closed. That's
| way over the line and goes well beyond what
| the lawsuit was about. It was great to see
| the EFF take up the case, but it's a shame
| to see others miss the bigger picture.Esahc
| writes in to point out that Vivek Wadhwa
| has penned a column for TechCrunch blasting
| the EFF for defending these sites. I can
| understand why Wadhwa is upset about the
| sites. The sites are undoubtedly racist and
| despicable. They are also ignorant and
| economically illiterate. Some of the posts
| are, clearly, hate speech, and inciting
| violence against certain individuals.
`----
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100118/0412297796.shtml
Does the Fourth Amendment cover 'the cloud'?
,----[ Quote ]
| One of the biggest issues facing
| individuals and corporations choosing to
| adopt public cloud computing (or any
| Internet service, for that matter) is the
| relative lack of clarity with respect to
| legal rights over data stored online. I've
| reported on this early legal landscape a
| couple of times, looking at decisions to
| relax expectations of privacy for e-mail
| stored online and the decision to allow the
| FBI to confiscate servers belonging to
| dozens of companies from a co-location
| facility whose owners were suspected of
| fraud.
`----
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10436425-240.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Google, China, and the future of freedom on the global Internet
,----[ Quote ]
| Maybe it's because I was schooled in
| political science, not computer science.
| But frankly I've been surprised by the
| extent to which some respected commentators
| have focused on trashing Google for lacking
| purity of motive. As if that were some kind
| of brilliant revelation. Of course Google's
| actions are motivated by self-interest.
|
| [...]
|
| In the United States, Google's policy
| positions are frequently aligned with free
| speech activists and the open source/free
| culture community - as they go head-to-head
| against traditional telcos and media
| companies in policy fights over copyright
| law, Net Neutrality, the evil secretive and
| scary ACTA trade agreement, and other
| issues. In Italy, for example, Google
| executives are facing criminal charges
| because the Italian government wants to
| hold Internet companies like Google more
| directly liable for what users do on their
| services, which encourages a global trend
| that would inevitably result in companies
| having to massively increase the extent to
| which they track, police and censor users -
| which in turn not only has serious
| implications for human rights and free
| expression but also drastically increases
| Internet companies' overhead, making their
| business model much less sustainable. This
| isn't just a problem in Italy.
`----
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2010/01/google-china-and-the-future-of-freedom-on-the-global-internet.html
Recent:
Proposed Web video restrictions cause outrage in Italy
,----[ Quote ]
| New rules to be introduced by government
| decree will require people who upload
| videos onto the Internet to obtain
| authorization from the Communications
| Ministry similar to that required by
| television broadcasters, drastically
| reducing freedom to communicate over the
| Web, opposition lawmakers have warned.
`----
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/01/15/proposed-web-video-restrictions-cause-outrage-italy
Why the Kankakee County Farm Bureau hates net neutrality
,----[ Quote ]
| The Kankakee County Farm Bureau wants to
| stop net neutrality. So does the Erie
| Neighborhood House, along with Downtown
| Springfield Inc, Big Brothers/Big Sisters
| of Will and Grundy Counties, and the mayor
| of North Chicago.
|
| The organizations all share several things:
| they are located in Illinois, they want the
| FCC to focus on broadband adoption rather
| than net neutrality, and... they all have
| connections to AT&T.
`----
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/why-the-kankakee-county-farm-bureau-hates-net-neutrality.ars
Italian Courts, latest score: Berlusconi 1; YouTube 0
,----[ Quote ]
| The Italian court today struck a significant
| blow in favour of Mediaset, the broadcaster
| controlled by Silvio Berlusconi, and against
| YouTube.
|
| [...]
|
| No doubt lawyers in other jurisdictions are
| already sharpening their writs in pursuit of
| YouTube - in the meantime, the Viacom v
| YouTube litigation continues to wend its way
| through the New York courts, with no sign of
| an imminent conclusion.
`----
http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2009/12/italian-courts-latest-score-berlusconi.html
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAktWe7cACgkQU4xAY3RXLo6uUACfdPE6Mdra9RWyhVpoCfkyEnNo
2GUAn3KlP3nN4Hpvf/3TMrW9/IEZvIgq
=5TPZ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
