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California company agrees to remove block to gay educational websites

donal brown May 24, 2011

Under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, a California software company agreed to remove a web filter blocking public school students from access to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender websites. Removing the filter allows over additional 6 million students to check out the sites. Suzanne Ito wrote in an ACLU commentary that the public schools are violating the First Amendment in using the filters, “Because public schools cannot engage in viewpoint-based censorship, any public

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Palin biographer under investigation for ethics violations

donal brown May 24, 2011

Frank Bailey, a former aide to Sarah Palin, is under investigation in Alaska for writing a book critical of Palin using thousands of e-mails from her 2006 gubernatorial campaign, her run for vice president in 2008 and her brief tenure as governor. The Alaska attorney general  is investigating Bailey’s use of the emails under laws that prohibit former public officials from using information acquired during their work for personal gain if the information is not

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United Kingdom: Courts battle social media in flap over soccer star’s alleged affair

donal brown May 24, 2011

A British soccer star obtained a court order forbidding the traditional news media from publishing details of his alleged affair with a “Big Brother” contestant, but the effect 0f the injunction waxed small in the wake of some 75,00o weekend postings about the affair on the social media. The judge stubbornly reaffirmed the need for the injunction to protect the soccer player’s privacy, but the prime minister said in light of what happened in this

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Defense Department puts heat on employees to report suspicious information flows

donal brown May 24, 2011

A new directive requires Department of Defense personnel to report suspicious activities and behavior. Personnel could be punished for failing to report the specified activities. Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News writes, “The directive lists numerous actions that are subject to mandatory reporting including ‘attempts to obtain classified or sensitive information by an individual not authorized to receive such information’ and ‘requests for DoD information that make an individual suspicious, to include suspicious or questionable requests

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Free speech: High school girls’ risque photos subject of federal suit

donal brown May 24, 2011

Two sophomore girls are suing their Indiana school district in federal court after they were disciplined for posting online photos of themselves posing with phallic lollipops. Both the girls and the district are basing their pleas on the Supreme Court case, Tinker v. Des Moines, the district arguing that the photos appeal to prurient interests and as such were disruptive and run counter to the values of public education. The girls argue that the photos

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