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Congressional committee attempts censorship of professor’s criticism of Facebook

donal brown December 6, 2010

A chair of a Congressional committee cautioned a law professor about to speak to the committee  to refrain from personal attacks against any companies or company employees. -db Onlne Media Daily Commentary December 3, 2010 By Wendy Davis Columbia Law professor Eben Moglen seemed to have touched a nerve on Capitol Hill this week when he touted the social networking start-up Diaspora, which he advises, while simultaneously bashing Facebook, in his written testimony. Immediately before

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Columbia University grad school rethinks suggestion students not link to Wikileaks

donal brown December 6, 2010

Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs advised its students to avoid linking to Wikileaks lest it hurt their career prospects in government service but soon repudiated that advice. -db Wired December 6, 2010 By Sam Gustin Days after Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) caused an uproar by warning its students against linking to WikiLeaks or discussing the secret-spilling website’s latest cache of diplomatic cables online, the prestigious training ground

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California college president resigns over free speech controversy

donal brown December 2, 2010

Under criticism for suspending faculty members for participating in a protest outside the school’s “free speech zone,” the president of Southwestern College resigned November 30. -db FIRE December 2, 2010 By Adam Kissel The president of California’s Southwestern College (SWC), Raj K. Chopra, abruptly resigned on November 30 under a cloud of free-speech controversy. His administration shamelessly suspended four faculty members (later reduced to three) for their part in a protest that strayed beyond the

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Restrictions to counter Wikileaks could cripple government information sharing

donal brown December 2, 2010

Corrective actions under consideration after the Wikileaks release of classified documents may produce the undesirable result of stifling information sharing in government. -db NextGov November 29, 2010 BY Aliya Sternstein The government can’t do much, from a technical standpoint, to thwart the inappropriate interception of classified information by internal personnel — without imposing controls that would stifle information sharing, former Justice Department officials say. In the aftermath of the latest release of secret government documents on

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ACLU argues against prosecuting Wikileaks

donal brown December 2, 2010

The American Civil Liberties Union argues that prosecuting organizations like Wikileaks for releasing classified information would damage the ability of the press and others to inform the public about government actions. -db American Civil Liberties Union Commentary November 29, 2010 The Wikileaks phenomenon — the existence of an organization devoted to obtaining and publicly releasing large troves of information the U.S. government would prefer to keep secret — illustrates just how broken our secrecy classification

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