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Growing trend?: Senate candidate in Nevada dodges reporters

donal brown June 29, 2010

With talk radio and Facebook, political candidates no longer have to rely on television to get their message across. -db The New York Times June 28, 2010 By Brian Stelter RENO — There is a game in Nevada called “Where’s Sharron Angle?” that the press is tired of playing. Ms. Angle, a Nevada Senate candidate and Tea Party darling, has steadfastly refused to talk to reporters here, leading to some unusually aggressive behavior by local

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Supreme Court won’t hear First Amendment challenge of newsletter prosecution

donal brown June 28, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of an investment research company who had published a report of a stock with a statement that the company’s owner later denied saying. -db foxreno.com June 28, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t stop the securities fraud prosecution of an investment newsletter that published a report about a stock based on a statement that was later denied by the company’s owner. The high

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Secrecy News criticizes WikiLeaks

donal brown June 28, 2010

Secrecy News’ Steven Aftergood argues that there is good reason for the Knight Foundation’s refusal to fund WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, he says, has failed to increase government openness and accountability. -db Secrecy News June 28, 2010 By Steven Aftergood In the past week, both the Washington Post and the New York Times have referred to WikiLeaks.org, the web site that publishes confidential records, as a “whistleblower” site. This conforms to WikiLeaks’ own instructions to journalists that

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Political speech: Federal court rules satirical ads violated copyright law

donal brown June 28, 2010

An Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer finds fault with judges’ downgrading satire as a form of protected speech as in Henley v. DeVore in which a senatorial candidate attacked his opponent by setting his own words to two songs, “The Boys of Summer” (The Hope of November”) and “All She Wants to Do Is Dance” (“All She Wants to Do Is Tax”). -db Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary June 24, 2010 By Kurt Opsahl In Henley v.

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Middle Eastern countries censoring Internet

donal brown June 28, 2010

Last week Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey acted to block more content from the Internet. Afghanistan is installing filters on the categories of alcohol, dating and social networking, gambling and pornography. -db Electronic Frontier Foundation Opinion June 26, 2010 By Shari Steele Yet another country has decided to shut down key parts the Internet. Kathleen Reen at Internews reports that, as of this past Thursday, the Afghan Ministry of Communications mandated that all Internet Service Providers

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