Reporters without Borders offers six proposals for regulating Internet...
When Microsoft closed down a Chinese journalist's blog to comply, it said, with Chinese law, under pressure from the Chinese authorities once again shows that some Internet sector companies do not...
View ArticleCity official in Massachusetts asks if blog posts violate a state...
A city councilor in North Adams, Mass. (pop. 14,167), is concerned that the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law, which forbids unofficial meetings of public-board quorums or serial phone conversations about...
View ArticleWhen politicians exchange email and post to blogs do they violate...
city councilor in the community of 14,000 residents, essentially say they do not violate the Massachusetts Open Meeting Act when they exchange posts on weblogs. read more
View ArticleDid Comcast "censor" a segment critical of its customer service?
Major telecommunications companies assert that laws guaranteeing "network neutrality" are an unnecessary restraint on their right to to control what is transmitted along their Internet services. But an...
View ArticleBlogger Josh Wolf awaits full appeals court hearing on issue of responding to...
A San Francisco-based free-lance videographer and blogger, Josh Wolf, is in federal prison for refusing to turn over videotape he shot of a street protest in which two police officers were injured. The...
View ArticleFirst Amendment discussion increases in America's classrooms, Knight study finds
A Knight Foundation survey of 15,000 U.S. high-school students and 800 of their teachers has recorded increased teaching of First Amendment issues over the last two years. The high-school students know...
View Article"Fake news" battle heats up via letter to the FCC; both sides allege distortions
FreePress.net and the Center for Media & Democracy are escalating their dispute with the broadcast industry over whether the government should force U.S. TV stations to tell viewers the source of...
View ArticleConyers, Hall ask Bush administration to withdraw Balco subpoenas of...
The chairman and ranking minority member of the House judiciary committee today asked the government to withdraw subpoenas issued to two San Francisco Chronicle reporters whose testimony is sought in...
View ArticleJTM-MN: Libel, law and insurance
Jonathan Hart is counsel to the Online News Association and an expert on emerging aspects of Internet law, including libel. In a Skype teleconference, he meets with participants in New Pamphleteers/New...
View ArticleJoplin paper editor finds tornado affirms mission of journalism and offers...
BRANSON, Mo. -- Sandwiched between standing ovations before and after her 27-minute address, the daily editor from tornado-ravaged Joplin, Missouri, offered a stirring endorsement of why newspapers...
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