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ACLU Defends Internet Anonymity
The ACLU worked to block two anonymous Net users from having their identities revealed in two cases today; they argue that chatroom postings should be tried not as libel, but as slander, in which "actual economic harm" must be shown. (2/26/2001 at NewsBytes)
Bleak Future Looms If You Don't Take a Stand
Columnist Dan Gillmor urges readers to fight corporations' attempts to control content and communication by lobbying Congress and not buying copy-protected CDs. (3/23/2002 at Siliconvalley.com)
Can We Provide Security for the Internet and Protect Free Speech at the Same Time?
Columnist Tom Regan backs off from his condemnation of online protestors, and recognizes the use of cyber-protest tools (including overloading "enemy" servers) as legitimate protest. (1/4/2000 at The Christian Science Monitor)
EFF Report: Four Years Under the DMCA
Discussion of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's article "Unintended Consequences," reviewing the negative effects of the DMCA in its first four years of existence. (1/12/2003 at Slashdot.org)
Hollywood Loves Hollings' Bill
The Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA), a new DMCA-like bill which Senator Fritz Hollings plans to introduce to the Senate, would require that copy-protection controls be put in almost all PCs and consumer electronic devices. (9/11/2001 at Wired News)
Lawmakers Put Brakes on Expanded E-surveillance
Congress has indicated that it will not sacrifice civil liberties to give the Bush administration the expanded powers it asked for in its anti-terrorism bill. (10/1/2001 at NewsBytes)
Lessig Slams Bovine Culture of Complacency
A description of Lawrence Lessig's speech at WEB2001, in which he outlined the divide between those who wish for control over content and those seeking to keep content and technology free. (9/6/2001 at Web Review)
Restoring Balance in the Battle Over Free Expression on the Net
Property rights are trumping personal liberty in a series of court cases and disputes, involving domain names, hyperlinking, and programming code. (8/26/2000 at Mercury Center)
Silicon Valley Immigrant Worker Alleges Exploitation in Lawsuit
Cambodian immigrant Kamsan Mao is suing two Silicon Valley computer companies for wrongful termination, saying he was fired for refusing to do extra work beyond his eight-hour shifts for below minimum wage. (12/14/1999 at The Nando Times)
Stop Signs on the Web
Due to pressure from major corporations, and their own national agendas, governments are working at reining in the free-wheeling Internet, implementing laws, rules, and technology that diminish Internet users' freedom. (1/11/2001 at The Economist)
When The FBI Knocks, A First-Person Account
Slashdot discussion of a hacker's tale of having his computer confiscated because he talked online about someone else's attack on yankees.com. (10/31/2000 at Slashdot.org)
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