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Media heroism turned on its head: The real Manning scandal

[…] disdain and showed the bottomless suffering the war inflicted on the innocents it was supposed to save. With the Pentagon Papers, newspapers defied secrecy rules to expose government lies. With Watergate, reporters forced out a corrupt president. True, that retelling is a bit of myth-spinning; the media never were quite that gutsy. But myths […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 20, 2013
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Major newspapers back CFAC/MAPlight lawsuit to expand public access to Legislative actions

[…] to change it. On Friday, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, suggested that a resolution may be coming soon. "When there is no additional burden on government to turn over the information in a user-friendly format, we ought to be stretching and going out of our way to do that," Steinberg said by […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Google’s purchase of Motorola shows dangers of out-of-control patent litigation

[…] growth and job growth is huge. Politicians and economists, particularly of the Republican variety, have been quick to blame the US economy's slow pace of recovery on government uncertainty--uncertainty about the impact on businesses of new federal initiatives (particularly, the Obama administration's healthcare program), tax policy, and environmental regulations. They should be expressing similar […]

August 16, 2011
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Google’s Antitrust Wrist Slap Is Right Result for Wrong Reason. Right Reason: Google Search Results are Protected Speech

[…] "search bias" allegations, reached the right destination, but it took the wrong route to get there. The search results produced by Google's search engine are exempt from government control, whether under antitrust or other laws, because they are protected, as free speech, by the proverbial "higher law" of the First Amendment. First Amendment considerations […]

January 7, 2013
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Free the Hewlett-Packard 5!

[…] disaffected employees or board members from leaking. The media’s relative freedom to publish leaks, whether from corporations or the Defense Department, is a function of corporations’ and government’s relative freedom to identify and punish leakers in their own ranks. If they were constrained in their ability to deter leaks internally, their claim to stop […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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For Google, Facebook et al, the best defense against NSA surveillance is not legal reform, but technology that forces the agency to come through the “front door”

[…] NSA and wants to see its activities curbed. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, nerds and Luddites, all share a high level of discomfort about the federal government gaining access to their personal information stored on the servers of Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others. But here's the question: If we object to NSA's use […]

January 7, 2014
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Feedback from recent column, “Snowden Go Home”

[…] Not surprisingly, these views triggered some critical comments. Several said that Snowden's actions were the same, morally speaking, as Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the classified government history of US involvement in Vietnam, whose publication by the NY Times, the Washington Post and others in 1971 was seen as a first amendment cause […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 15, 2014
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Federal judge’s order shutting down wikileaks.org, a whistleblower website, is 1st Amendment travesty

[…] Tibet movement while recently performing in Shanghai, to Steven Spielberg stepping down as artistic adviser of the Beijing Games citing objections to China’s ties to the Sudanese government, many see this as an opportune moment to put pressure on the People’s Republic. Here at the California First Amendment Coalition, we have had our eyes […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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FAC’s Peter Scheer to speak at May 8 public records litigation seminar

[…] take before bringing a lawsuit in a public records case? This question will be the focus of discussion for FAC Executive Director Peter Scheer and other top government-access legal specialists participating in the Public Records Act Litigation Seminar, Wed., May 8 in San Francisco. The seminar is designed for public and private attorneys who […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 26, 2013
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FAC Welcomes Legal Fellow Monica Price

[…] to welcome Monica Price as its next legal fellow. In this role, Price will work directly with journalists and others to help them access public records and government meetings, while also contributing to a range of First Amendment and open-government litigation. "We are thrilled to welcome Monica to the team," said FAC Executive Director […]

July 22, 2021