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• China wants microbloggers to register with the government, hand over real identity

  
  Engadget — Authority: 850
  Thought that Facebooks and Google+s requirements that you use your real name were draconian? Just be thankful youre not a weibo addict in China. The government is planning to expand a program that demands users register their real names and disclose their identity. Wang Chen, Chinas top internet regulation official, ...
  1 week ago

• Protesting SOPA/PIPA

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 466
  Lots of sites going dark in protest of the Internet control freak legislation in the U.S. aka SOPA/PIPA. The Oatmeal has provided a handy animated GIF and asks everyone to “please pirate the shit” out of it. Okay then… Wikipedia has gone dark but has provided a special page to provide Americans with the ...
  1 week ago

• The Supreme Court justices

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 839
  The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to clarify on what grounds public schools may punish students for their off-campus online speech. The justices have not squarely addressed the student-speech issue as it applies to the digital world—one filled with online social-networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace ...
  1 week ago

• Could Facebook Shut Down Over SOPA & PIPA?

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 114
  If you are like many people, you are reading a lot about SOPA and PIPA right now. To get the lowdown, check out this post about how SOPA/PIPA can affect you . Also, watch this video about understanding SOPA and PIPA, and find out if Facebook could actually shut down. Though Wikipedia is going dark over SOPA/PIPA ...
  1 week ago

• President Colbert, the lobbyists are here to see you

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 727
  Why Citizens United isnt the problem, and why Stephen Colbert is missing the mark . Citizens United previously . This post brought to you by the letters P, A, and C, and the numbers 5, 2, and 7.
  1 week ago

• Wikipedia to Go Dark on Wednesday to Protest SOPA & PIPA

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 114
  The U.S. government is currently considering to bills that are causing quite a stir — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). According to TechCrunch , “Websites found to offer pirated content, along with the services that they use, could be hidden from US internet users by being ...
  1 week ago

• Collage Goes DARK

  
  Art and Musings of RetroCollage — Authority: 92
    On January 18, 2012 — TODAY — many sites on the Internet (including the English-language version of the encyclopedia site Wikipedia )   will go completely DARK for twenty-four hours. Why? The owners and users of those sites are protesting SOPA and PIPA , the two “anti-piracy” measures currently up ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Old white guys’ meet ‘cute young intern’ and First Amendment at the Broadcasting Board of Governors

  
  Free Media Online Blog — Authority: 112
  A commentary by BBG Watch Cute High School Intern Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) officials have gotten so used to running their small federal agency like their own private country club that they still frequently forget that at least some of their meetings can now be viewed online. While the video from the last ...
  2 weeks ago

• Censoring social media curbs free speech, say netizens

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Indian governments decision to prosecute social networking sites like Google and Facebook has triggered public anger, with netizens saying the move is tantamount to clamping down on constitutional rights of free ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lamar Smith and Patrick Leahy blink: take DNS-blocking out of SOPA and PIPA

  
  bigBrains.com — Authority: 147
  After repeatedly insisting that establishing a national censoring firewall with DNS-blocking was critical to the Stop Online Piracy Act, the bill’s sponsor (and chair of the House Judicial Committee) Rep Lamar Smith has blinked. He’s agreed to cut DNS-blocking from the bill, in the face of a threat from rival Rep ...
  2 weeks ago

• Court Rules Texas Abortion-Sonogram Law Consitutional

  
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  In Texas, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law that mandates women seeking an abortion to have a sonogram examination and to listen to a physicians detailed description of the fetus, including whether it has developed limbs or internal organs. The people who support the law say it is designed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Court Rules Texas Abortion-Sonogram Law Constitutional

  
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  In Texas, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law that mandates women seeking an abortion to have a sonogram examination and to listen to a physicians detailed description of the fetus, including whether it has developed limbs or internal organs. The people who support the law say it is designed ...
  2 weeks ago

• The SOPAbox: Defeating online piracy by destroying the internet

  
  Massively — Authority: 124
  Filed under: Video , Culture , Events, real-world , MMO industry , News items , Opinion , Legal , The Soapbox , Miscellaneous Disclaimer: The Soapbox column is entirely the opinion of this weeks writer and does not necessarily reflect the views of Massively as a whole. If youre afraid of opinions ...
  2 weeks ago

• Argentina moves to take control of newsprint business

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 614
  Economic liberty intertwined with civil liberty, part 7,914,886: “The paper used to produce newspapers came under government control in Argentina on Thursday, in a long-sought victory for President Cristina Fernandez in her dispute with the country’s opposition media,” reported AP last month . More from the ...
  3 weeks ago

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