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IOC orders blogger to take down video
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| The International Olympic Committee has
| ordered a blogger to remove a video showing
| the death of Georgian luger Nodar
| Kumaritashvili from his website.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20100222/ioc-orders-blogger-take-down-video.htm
Did NewTeeVee/GigaOm Violate Copyright Laws By Telling You How To View The 2010 Olympics Online?
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| It's no secret that tons of people are
| pretty damn upset with NBC's decisions to
| tape delay pretty much everything at the
| Olympics, in an era when everyone is used
| to real-time info. On top of that, most
| people recognize that it's not hard to
| simply go online to unauthorized sources to
| watch streams of the Olympics live.
| GigaOm's NewTeeVee put up a post over the
| weekend that explains how to view such
| unauthorized streams, and the site even
| titled the post: "Pirating the 2010 Winter
| Olympics." Given that this is all rather
| obvious, it shouldn't be a problem, right?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100222/1240328256.shtml
Next up for France: police keyloggers and Web censorship
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| Having just passed its super-controversial
| CrÃation et Internet "graduated response"
| law, you might think the French government
| would take at least a brief break from
| riling up the "internautes." Instead, the
| government is prepping a new crime bill
| that will, among other things, mandate
| Internet censorship at the ISP level,
| legalize government spyware, and create a
| massive meta-database of citizen
| information called "Pericles."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/next-up-for-france-police-keyloggers-and-web-censorship.ars
Facebook Restores Accounts Of 3 Critics It Mysteriously Deleted
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| Apparently, three Argentines who worked on
| a book that mocks Facebook mysteriously had
| their Facebook accounts deleted in January.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100219/0328158237.shtml
Facebook criticsâ profiles restored after press uproar
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| After an uproar in Latin American media,
| three Argentines involved in a book that
| portrays the social network in a cynical
| and satirical light had their Facebook
| profiles restored today.
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http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/02/18/faceboom/
Recent:
France Moves Closer to Unprecedented Internet Regulation
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| The lower house of the French parliament has
| approved a draft bill that will allow the
| state unprecedented control over the
| Internet. Although the government says it
| will improve security for ordinary citizens,
| civil rights activists are warning of a "new
| level" of censorship and surveillance.
|
| For members of the French administration, it
| is a law against digital crime. For civil
| rights activists and politicians from
| opposition parties, it is a plan for
| censorship that excites fear and loathing --
| and even conjures up the specter of Big
| Brother and the surveillance state.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,678508,00.html
Move over, Australia: France taking 'Net censorship lead
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| Critics of government-mandated filtering
| schemes contend that such programs first
| focus on "child pornography" because it's
| such an unobjectionable target for
| censorshipâbut once the program is in place,
| it's much easier to extend it to more
| controversial areas, such as copyright
| protection. At least the French have the
| decency to admit that this is what's
| happening.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/move-over-australia-france-taking-net-censorship-lead.ars
Studentâs Facebook Tirade Against Teacher Is Protected Speech
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| The score is 2-1 in favor of the First
| Amendment when it comes to three federal
| rulings this month on the limits of
| studentsâ online, off-campus speech.
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| The latest ruling, which supports the
| student, concerned a former Florida high
| senior who was reprimanded for
| âcyberbullyingâ a teacher on Facebook.
| Katherine Evans, now 20, was suspended two
| years ago after creating a Facebook group
| devoted to her English teacher.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/student-facebook-tirade-against-teacher-is-protected-speech/
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