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Law student chides TSA for violating blogger’s rights

donal brown January 4, 2010

A Citizen Media Law Project blogger says the recent attempt of the Transportation Security Administration to serve citizen bloggers with subpoenas after the bloggers published new airport security directives shows that the agency needs judicial checks and its power to subpoena stripped. -DB Citizen Media Law Project January 4, 2010 By Andrew Moshirnia In recent years, the American public seems to have fallen under the impression that providers and regulators of airline travel have extra-legal

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Denver theater company petitions Supreme Court for right to puff

donal brown January 4, 2010

Denver’s Curious Theatre is taking its case for the right to smoke non-tobacco products onstage to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming a right to creative expression and free speech. -DB The Denver Post December 31, 2009 By John Moore Denver’s Curious Theatre will petition the U.S. Supreme Court for the right to smoke non-tobacco products in its theatrical productions, artistic director Chip Walton said Wednesday. For three years, Curious has unsuccessfully argued in various courts

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Repressive regimes want to restrict world’s right to criticize religion

donal brown January 4, 2010

Charles C. Haynes, senior scholar at the First Amendment Center, argues that instead of passing non-binding blasphemy laws, the United Nations should support religious freedom and dissent, especially protecting religious minorities. -DB First Amendment Center Commentary December 31, 2009 By Charles C. Haynes Good riddance to the aughts, naughts or ohs. By whatever name, the first decade of the 21st century has been devastating for religious liberty in much of the world. The statistics are numbing.

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India all a-twitter as government ministers clash over use of social media

donal brown January 4, 2010

An Indian junior minister got a reprimand from his boss for using Twitter to criticize the government’s immigration policy, provoking discussion about open debate in a democracy and the role of electronic media. -DB The Los Angeles Times December 31, 2009 By Mark Magnier NEW DELHI – It takes a lot fewer than 140 characters to say, “Do you want to keep your job?” In what some are billing as a generational clash of technology

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Libelous online content not easy to remove

donal brown January 4, 2010

Even though a court found that online statements were false and defamatory, the targets of the statements, an Illinois couple and their daughter, were unable to get them removed as the authors refused a request to do so and the online site running the statements refused as well, saying they were not a party to the case. -DB The Daily Online Examiner Commentary December 24, 2009 By Wendy Davis Congress decided more than a decade

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