Free speech / censorship

FFIA Press-Shield Law May Expand Copyright Use As Loophole

October 17th 2007

EFF Civil Liberties Director, Jennifer Granick, provides an excellent review of the Free Flow of Information Act (FFIA). Introduced by Senators Specter, Lugar, and Schumer the bill seeks to establish a federal journalist-shield privilege. The bill provides broad protection to anyone engaged in the regular gathering, writing or publishing of news or other matters of […]

Snitching, Censorship and Spying: You Are the Web 2.0 Scoop

October 16th 2007

Consumer generated content is all the range in the web 2.0 world. It’s now taking a new form as both governments and those who hope to expose governments to greater scrutiny “want to know what you know”. As governments get good at online intelligence, I believe we will find that making censorship and data gathering […]

What Verizon’s Change on NARAL Text Ban Reveals

October 9th 2007

In an unbelievable move, last week Verizon briefly rejected a request from an abortion rights group to make its network available for a text message program. The timing couldn’t have been worse. It vividly demonstrated that online, cable and wireless services are immune from non-interference regulations that apply to phone services just as the national […]