November 3rd 2007
This week, two diverse publications–The Christian Science Monitor and Wired Magazine–asked the same question: “Are we going overboard in regulating adult content?” I attend at least a dozen online-industry events a year, and listen to podcasts, read blogs and pay for research from countless industry pundits. And in each case, the online adult entertainment industry, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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