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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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Another court decision in favor of online site in defamation case

donal brown January 3, 2010

A federal appeals court has ruled that the site ConsumerAffairs.com is immune from liability for alleged libel posted on its site by third parties. -DB Online Media Daily December 30, 2009 By Wendy Davis A federal appellate court has backed gripe site ConsumerAffairs.com in a defamation lawsuit filed by a car dealers. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal Communications Decency Act gives the site immunity from liability for libel based on

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Federal court upholds secrecy on surveillance records

donal brown January 2, 2010

A federal appeals court ruled that the government could refuse to confirm or deny the existence of electronic surveillance records as an exception under the Freedom of Information Act. Former Guantanamo Bay detainees had requested records of the warrantless surveillance. -DB JURIST January 01, 2010 By Christian Ehret The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Wednesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice

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