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• Human Rights and Reframing Three Strikes: Access to the Internet = Access to information

  
  PolicyBeta — Authority: 489
  Late Thursday evening, European lawmakers agreed on language in the Telecoms Package that is supposed to safeguard the fundamental rights to freedom of expression and access to information online as governments seek harsher penalties to address IP infringement. France recently approved a graduated response (or ...
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• Iraq: Protect Besieged Minorities

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 680
  (Erbil) - Iraqs central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government should protect besieged minorities in the disputed territories of Nineveh province, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. read more
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• Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Google Public Policy Blog — Authority: 681
  Posted by Dorothy Chou, Policy Analyst If you used Google today you may have noticed we highlighted a LIFE Photo Archive slideshow commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Check it out , if you havent already. The photos are a powerful reminder of how the Berlin Wall stood as both ...
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• Iran: Stop Covering Up Sexual Assaults in Prison

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 680
  (New York) - Irans judiciary should immediately investigate cases of sexual assaults in prison and prosecute those responsible, instead of covering up these crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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• Bad journalism: Something you are, or something you do?

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 136
  Forget faked pictures and media bias. How about basic writing?Read this AP story — “Walesa quits Solidarity union” — and tell me if you have any idea what the dispute between Lech Walesa and Solidarity is, or what the word “conservative” means in Polish politics.And these people want special ...
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• Jenzabar: Blogs are sticks and stones; they hurt me.

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 136
  Jenzabar, the educational software company Paul Levy and I mentioned last month (and which Overlawyered picked up) in connection with its “trademark as censorship tool” litigation, is back at it again — and not a little clumsily, for all its cleverness.  As Paul reports, the company’s lawyers arenow claiming ...
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• Turning back that Crimson Tide

  
  LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION — Authority: 136
  Trademark law does not trump the right to make and sell artistic depictions of real life after all, it turns out.  Or even NCAA football.Almost exactly four years ago I wrote about the suit by the University of Alabama urging the obnoxious claim that artistic depictions of its players at play were, by virtue of [...]
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• And, They’re Off!

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  The title isn’t a reference to the Derby or the Preakness or the Belmont Stakes.  It’s a reference to the annual Festival of Nativity Naysayers, aka the Feast of Christmas Humbuggers, aka the Holiday When Liberals Dump on Christians. We’ve barely reached the pagan festival of Halloween but, never known as ...
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• Honduras: Investigate Abuses, Repeal Repressive Measures

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 680
  (Washington, DC) - The restoration of constitutional order in Honduras should be accompanied by the immediate repeal of repressive decrees issued by the de facto government, and a full investigation of abuses committed in the aftermath of the coup, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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• Torontos taqiyyameister

  
  Dead Reckoning — Authority: 118
  Imam Said Rageah delivered a sermon in Toronto recently and stirred a hornets nest when it was analysed in The National Post . He was a addressing an inititative of the Muslim Canadian Congress, an Islamic reform group, headquartered in Toronto, which has petitioned the federal government to outlaw the burka and the ...
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• Paul Pritchard: one mans bid to show the truth

  
  TNT - TRUTH ... not TASERS — Authority: 132
  October 29, 2009Times ColonistIf not for Paul Pritchard, the world would likely never have known what really happened to Robert Dziekanski when he landed at Vancouver International Airport two years ago.There would have been no Braidwood inquiry. No changes to the rules around police Taser use. No answers for the ...
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• Deadline drawing near for First Amendment Writes

  
  Charlottesville Words — Authority: 421
  Check out the details at the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression : Singer / Songwriter Terri Allard and best-selling author Rita Mae Brown will be among the judges in the fourth annual First Amendment Writes , a poetry and songwriting contest organized by the Music Resource Center, the ...
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• McGuire on Media: Let’s not let Medill Innocence Project be another Hazelwood

  
  Martin Stabe — Authority: 431
  "To attempt to redeem itself for its ignorance and sloth on [Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier], the mainstream press needs to rally to protect and defend the Medill Innocence Project."
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• Libya: Drop Charges against Journalist

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 680
  (New York) - The Libyan government should investigate allegations of sexual harassment in a state-run residence for women who had been orphaned instead of charging the journalist who reported the story with criminal defamation, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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• Guinea: September 28 Massacre Was Premeditated

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 680
  (New York) – An in-depth investigation into the September 28, 2009 killings and rapes at a peaceful rally in Conakry, Guinea, has uncovered new evidence that the massacre and widespread sexual violence were organized and were committed largely by the elite Presidential Guard, commonly known as the “red berets,” ...
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• Violated : Cultural Appropriation In Honor Of Carlos Ruiz

  
  Can't Stop The Bleeding — Authority: 142
  Given my own rooting interests in the upcoming World Series (ie., I’d like to see it canceled), I have to say I greatly prefer the original version of Kurt Vile ’s video for “Freak Train”.  That said, if the above clip can bring peace to the waring factions behind Chooch’s Chicos and the Chooch -Chooch ...
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• European Commission warns of lgbt rights deficiencies in nations seeking EU admission

  
  hunter of justice — Authority: 514
  The European Commission has published its 2009 " Progress Reports " on thecountries now or potentially seeking EU membership: Croatia, the formerYugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia andHerzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo. According to ILGA-Europe : LGBT issues are covered in all reports ...
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• Tunisia: Elections in an Atmosphere of Repression

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 680
  (New York) - Repressive acts and tight controls on the election process have tainted the prospects for free and fair presidential and legislative elections in Tunisia on October 25, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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• Celebrating free expression 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  The Official Google Blog — Authority: 818
  (Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog ) In 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall became a striking symbol for free expression far beyond the borders of Germany. Just 20 years later, Iranian citizens used online tools like YouTube and Twitter to share firsthand accounts of the brutal government crackdown waged against ...
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• Celebrating free expression 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Google Public Policy Blog — Authority: 681
  Posted by Annette Kroeber-Riel, European Policy Counsel (Cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog .) In 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall became a striking symbol for free expression far beyond the borders of Germany. Just 20 years later, Iranian citizens used online tools like YouTube and Twitter to share ...
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