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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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Mexican citizens held for ‘Twitter terrorism’

donal brown September 13, 2011

Two Mexican citizens were arrested in Veracruz for  reporting on Twitter something they heard,  that a drug gang had attacked a primary school and conducted a kidnapping. It turns out that the report was untrue and caused a panic and over twenty car accidents as parents rushed to get their kids out of class. The government blamed the two for causing the panic and charged them with terrorism that carries a sentence of two to

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Facebook bans no impediment to students

donal brown September 6, 2011

School administrators are no match for tech savvy students as students simply use proxy servers to get around Facebook bans. Schools are trying to limit social media sites to get students to concentrate on their educations, but a ban on sites are ineffective. Some students, though, have been known to stay at school to do homework aware that they will not be tempted to go on Facebook. -db From  The New York Times, September 2,

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A&A:High school impeaches student president over Facebook rant

FAC July 28, 2011

Q: My daughter was featured on the top most headline of the local newspaper this last Saturday. She has been stripped of her ELECTED position as President of her High School because of an off-hand comment she made on a chat on Facebook. We are looking to anyone that can help us and a lawyer friend in the are suggested contacting you. A: The Supreme Court “has held that the First Amendment guarantees only limited

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United Kingdom: Courts battle social media in flap over soccer star’s alleged affair

donal brown May 24, 2011

A British soccer star obtained a court order forbidding the traditional news media from publishing details of his alleged affair with a “Big Brother” contestant, but the effect 0f the injunction waxed small in the wake of some 75,00o weekend postings about the affair on the social media. The judge stubbornly reaffirmed the need for the injunction to protect the soccer player’s privacy, but the prime minister said in light of what happened in this

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