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Federal judge orders former CIA official to forfeit book earnings

donal brown April 24, 2012

A federal judge ruled for the CIA on a dispute over the profits of a book a whistleblower wrote without the  agency’s permission. The whistleblower said the book contained no classified information, and its profits were donated to accounts belonging to children of U.S. soldiers killed in action. -db From The Washington Post, April 20, 2012, by the Associated Press. Full story  

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Foreign Service Officer harassed for writing book critical of Iraq reconstruction

donal brown April 17, 2012

After publishing a book criticizing U.S. reconstruction projects in Iraq, Foreign Service Officer Peter Van Buren had his security clearance suspended, his Diplomatic Passport lifted, forced to go on leave and lost his access to his State Department computer. The State Department also admits that they are monitoring his private blogs, Tweets and Facebook comments. -db From a commentary in Salon, April 12, 2012, by Jesselyn Radack. Full story  

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Federal judge orders university to reinstate fomer media adviser fired over content in student newspaper

donal brown March 15, 2012

A U.S. district court judge ruled that the Chicago State University improperly dismissed Gerian Steven Moore,the adviser of the campus newspaper, after a series of articles criticizing the university. The court ordered the reinstatement of the adviser and the negative employment record deleted. Moore said, “I think it was a victory for student press rights. I trust that people will learn from this episode and understand that the student press has the same rights as

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PayPal curtails censorship after complaints from free speech advocates

donal brown March 15, 2012

PayPal said it would began accepting transactions involving books containing descriptions of rape, incest and bestiality. Free speech organizations had earlier protested that under PayPal policy classics such as Sophocles’ Oedipus and Ovid’s Metamorphoses would be censored. PayPal said it would still censor e-books that violated U.S. obscenity laws. -db From the Courthouse News Service, March 14, 2012, by Nick McCann. Full story    

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PayPal in censorship business

donal brown March 1, 2012

The Electronic Freedom Foundation is ready to go to court to contest PayPal’s practice of censoring sexually explicit fiction. PayPal had denied service to Smashwords for selling what PayPal deemed obscene content. “Frankly, we don’t think that PayPal should be using its influence to make moral judgments about what ebooks are appropriate for Smashwords readers,” writes Rainey Reitman for EFF. -db From a commentary for the Electronic Freedom Foundation, February 29, 2012, by Rainey Reitman.

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