Committee to Protect Bloggers

Update: Facebook responds. Kind of.
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Update: RSF is trying to find out how Moroccan prosecutors determined Mourtada’s indentity.
Reporters Without Borders wonders how the police identified Mourtada. “Did the police get his computer’s IP address? And if so, how? We have asked the ISP, Maroc Telecom, in which the French company Vivendi is a shareholder, to […]

On February 18, Jeffrey White, a California District Court judge issued an injunction against Wikileaks, a whistle-blower site.
Part of the injunction appears on the Wikileaks site.
Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website […]

Several decisions in U.S. courts recently, in Arizona and New Jersey, have recognized the right to blog anonymously. A Dodd-led filibuster in the U.S. Senate pushed back a vote on a bill that would have made more spying on U.S. citizens legal and would have given telecoms who’ve helped in illegal surveillance activities immunity.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato
U.S. Army Major, and blogger, Andrew Olmsted was the first casualty of the year in Iraq. According to Rocky Mountain News (via KCHBlog) the 38-year-old from Colorado was killed by small arms fire.
Last spring, his commanders asked him to tone down his blog, Andrew […]

Update: Telecom immunity back on the table, according to EFF.
Congress returns to Washington DC this week, and with them returns the battle over telecom immunity. Recall that on the eve of a key vote in December 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delayed action on the surveillance bill until January, giving Senators additional time to […]

Update: The teacher will not be charged, according to the

Here are a couple of recent news stories regarding privacy, the Internet and communications law in the United States.
Arizona Affirms Strong Protections for Anonymous Speech Online (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Congress to examine “the Internet” as a tool for homegrown terrorism (Ars Technica)
EFF Moves to Block New Jersey Township’s Attempt to Unmask Critical Blogger (Electronic Frontier […]

United States House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved the Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA), according to Reporters Without Borders. Drafted in February 2006 by Christopher Smith (R), New Jersey, this bipartisan bill is designed to prevent American Internet companies from collaborating with repressive governments. This has happened too many times to count already. The most […]

Part of the new US National Strategy for Homeland Security declares the country will “we will seek to deny the Internet to our terrorist enemies.”
Infornation Week (via CircleID) wonders how.

Exactly how the government expects to deny the Internet to terrorists isn’t spelled out. One possible way might be through the United State’s de facto […]