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Man challenges constitutionality of federal cyberstalking law

donal brown October 11, 2011

A man indicted for threats on Facebook is challenging the federal cyberstalking law on the grounds that the law makes free speech a crime and is vague and overbroad. The Pennsylvania man is charged with making a series of threats on Facebook after he was fired from his job at a theme park. The man made threatened an unidentified kindergarten class, his ex-wife and various local, state and federal law officers. From The Legal Intelligencer,

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Free speech: Mexican citizens murdered for using Internet to speak out against drug violence

donal brown October 4, 2011

Mexican drug cartels are murdering journalists and bloggers using the Internet and social media to protest the cartels’ drug-related violence. The Electronic Freedom Foundation makes some suggestions for Mexican citizens who want to continue the protests, “EFF recommends that bloggers who are concerned about their security and safety should post under a pseudonym, use Tor to prevent eavesdroppers from seeing the sites they visit and prevent websites from collecting data that might reveal their physical

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EFF director argues for use of online pseudonyms

donal brown August 1, 2011

With advent of the Google+ policy requiring users to identify by “the name your friend, family or do-workers usually call you,” Jillian York, a director for the Electronic Freedom Foundation argues that the benefits of pseudonyms outweigh the negatives, particularly for gays and other people subject to violence or harassment such as victims of domestic violence and particularly those opposing oppressive political regimes. York writes, “Those in favor of the use of ‘real names’ on

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China: Microbloggers defy censorship in relaying facts of high-speed train crash

donal brown July 29, 2011

Chinese censors are failing to contain the flood of online messages about the wreck of a high-speed train outside Wenzhou that killed 40 people and injured 191. Messages total 26 million. Citizens began the posts right after the accident and in many instances foiled the manipulations of government officials. In Wenzhou, officials ordered lawyers not to accept cases from families of victims without permission. After this came to light on the internet, they were forced to

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North Carolina college bans student from graduation for negative Facebook post

donal brown June 6, 2011

Saint Augustine’s college has banned a student from graduation ceremonies after the student posted comments on Facebook critical about how the college was handling its recovery from a tornado. FIRE claims that in the absence of a policy sanctioning the punishment, the college improvised by declaring that a Facebook post challenging their decisions could keep a student from graduation ceremonies. The college said students had an obligation to protect the reputation of the college. -db

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