Memphis Police Director Targets Anonymous Bloggers
By Sam Lea, Legal Satyricon Correspondent Memphis Police Director Billy Godwin has filed a lawsuit aimed at discovering the identification of the persons behind a Blog that is particularly critical
By Sam Lea, Legal Satyricon Correspondent Memphis Police Director Billy Godwin has filed a lawsuit aimed at discovering the identification of the persons behind a Blog that is particularly critical
The Fernandina Beach News Leader reports: Nassau County Commissioners considered an ordinance banning the sale of pornography during their meeting Wednesday. County Attorney David Hallman presented a draft ordinance to
The gag order in the MBTA subway hack case has been lifted. See Citizen Media Law Project.
In Lenz v. Universal, the N.D. Calif. allowed a little push-back against overreaching copyright owners who wield Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) takedown notices like a blunt club. In February
Another day, another peckerwood community pisses on the First Amendment by trying to put consenting adults in jail for selling videos of consenting adults to other consenting adults. During this
A federal judge granted the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s (MBTA) motion for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about how they had hacked the fare card
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog gives us “Defamation of Religion” — The New International Legal Craze? Apparently, the United Nations is beginning to embrace the idea that there should
One of my favorite targets for the ass-hat award, the normally-uber-swine Sam Brownback is on the right side of an internet freedom issue. The Chinese government (enshrined with a permanent
University of Florida Student Body President, Kevin Riley, and Chief Information Officer, Marc Hoit, recently issued this letter to the Florida Attorney General asking that the Florida Office of the
One wonders what awful experiences in Kevin Martin’s life must have twisted him into the modern day Comstock. His latest proposal is to provide free broadband nationwide, but the company
This post is a corrected version. The New York Times and Simple Justice report on a Bronx District Attorney’s First Amendment overreach. Somebody in the Bronx District Attorney’s office (nobody
A citizen came to a public place, where John McCain was giving a “town hall meeting.” For some reason, the Secret Service told the police to remove this citizen because