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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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Northern California: College trustee accuses professors of open meeting violation

donal brown June 28, 2010

A college of the Redwoods trustee has alleged that the Academic Senate violated California’s open meeting law, the Brown Act, by holding secret meetings. The salvo is part of an ongoing dispute between the professors and the trustees over budget cuts. -db The North Coast Journal June 24, 2010 By Ryan Burns College of the Redwoods Trustee George Truett this week sent a letter to District Attorney Paul Gallegos — and matching ones to the

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Supreme Court rules names on anti-gay petition can be made public

donal brown June 24, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled for public disclosure of names on a petition to overturn a gay rights law in Washington state. Those for disclosure say it is an important victory for the public’s right to check signatures and to discover who are supporting particular political stances. -db SeattlePI.com June 24, 2010 By Chris Grygiel The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the names of people who signed petitions in an attempt to overturn a new

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