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Military bloggers are doing just fine

donal brown March 1, 2012

After a brief downturn, military bloggers are finding myriads of outlets and are flourishing as never before, even with the blessing of the Defense Department. After complaints in 2006, the Bush administration began to encourage milblogging partially as a way to present positive news of military activities. -db From a commentary for The New York Times, February 28, 2012, by Crispin J. Burke. Full story

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Maryland bill would bar colleges from monitoring athletes’ social media posts

donal brown February 28, 2012

The Maryland legislature is considering a law preventing colleges from requiring athletes to allow school administrators to monitor their messages and posts on the social media. Questions arise over the constitutionality of colleges funded by the government interfering with the free speech rights of students. -db From a commentary for the Citizens Media Law Project, February 23, 2012, by Eric P. Robinson Full story  

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Federal judge allows subpoena forcing Twitter to reveal identity of anonymous Tweeter

donal brown February 28, 2012

A federal judge said an anonymous Tweeter who posted that he wanted to “engage in sadomasochistic activities” with former Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann could not quash a subpoena forcing Twitter to reveal his identity. The judge said that the man’s threat was so egregious that the government had a compelling interest in knowing his identity. -db From the Courthouse News Service, February 28, 2012, by Ryan Abbott. Full story  

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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul loses bid for identities of those posting online spoof

donal brown January 31, 2012

A federal judge ruled that Republican presidential contender Ron Paul could not force YouTube and Twitter to provide the identities of whoever uploaded videos with a spoof of Ron Paul bashing former candidate Jon Huntsman for being a Chinese agent. It is unusual for a candidate to sue in these matters given the courts’ tolerance of robust give and take in presidential campaigns, writes Jeff Roberts in paidContent. -db From a commentary in paidContent, January

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Public has options in dealing with Twitter’s new country-specific censorship

donal brown January 30, 2012

After Twitter announced last week they would engage in country-specific censorship, EFF’s Eva Galperin says there are ways to fight the plan including checking to see if Twitter makes use of the Chilling Effects Project which publishes a country’s censorship orders and puts it in an archive. Galperin also says that a user can circumvent the censorship by changing the country listed in their profile. -db From a commentary for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, January

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