Thursday, July 2,
2009
Lori Drew Acquitted in Megan Meier Case: What to Do About Cyberbullying?
Lori Drew was convicted late last year on charges related to her role in a cruel hoax that led to the tragic suicide of thirteen-year old Megan Meier in Missouri in 2006. But today, at her sentencing, the judge threw out her convictions . Millions around the world were horrified by Megan's fate, and many will probably be upset that Drew might go unpunished. But we need to separate three questions in this case:
Should the federal anti-hacking law under which she was convicted really be applied in such cases?
What, precisely, was Drew's involvement?
The key question: What should be done about the general problems of cyberbullying and cyberharassment?
Misuse of the Anti-Hacking Statute
Judge Wu has yet to issue his written opinion but seems to have agreed with the various experts on Internet law who argued that, however tragic the Meier case was, the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) should not have been applied to Drew. Most notably, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed an Amicus Brief in support of Drew's motion to dismiss the charges against her--summarized by Groklaw and the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology . Orin Kerr, a leading Internet law professor, felt so strongly about the consequences of using the CFAA to criminalize violations of privately written terms of service that he joined Drew's defense team. Kerr demonstrated the problems of essentially allowing private parties to create the grounds for criminal offenses (if violated by users) by suggesting obviously ridiculous new terms of service for the Volokh Conspiracy, the group blog he writes on.
Hard as it may be for those who want to "see justice done" in this case, the CFAA just isn't the right law to apply--which raises the question of whether new laws are needed, discussed below.
Uncertainty About Drew's Role
The judge may also have been influenced by uncertainty as to Drew's actual role in the case. Initial coverage of the story suggested that Drew created the fake MySpace persona of a teen boy ("Josh Evans"), then used that profile to woo Meier, a classmate of Drew's daughter, only to deliberately--and cruelly--break her heart. After Missouri prosecutors and the FBI declined to press charges against Drew, federal prosecutors in California decided to do so, but Drew consistently maintained that it was not her idea to create the account.
Continue reading Lori Drew Acquitted in Megan Meier Case: What to Do About Cyberbullying? . . .
posted by Berin Szoka @ 5:11 PM |
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Wednesday, July 1,
2009
Cyberbullying Legislation Debate: Video from FOSI Capitol Hill Event (6/12)
As I noted recently , Berin Szoka and I just released a big PFF white paper (PDF ) entitled, "Cyberbullying Legislation: Why Education is Preferable to Regulation ," which examines two very different federal approaches to the issue. One approach is focused on the creation of a new federal crime to punish cyberbullying, which would include fines and jail time for violators. One approach, set forth by Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA) in H.R. 1966 (originally H.R. 6123 ), the "Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act," would create a new federal felony: "Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
The other legislative approach is education-based and would create an Internet safety education grant program to address the issue in schools and communities. In mid-May, the "School and Family Education about the Internet (SAFE Internet) Act" (S. 1047 ) was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and in the House by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). The measure proposes an Internet safety education grant program that will be administered by the Department of Justice, in concurrence with the Department of Education, and the Department of Health & Human Services.
On June 12, the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) hosted a discussion about these bill on Cap Hill, which was moderated by FOSI CEO Stephen Balkam. Representatives from both Rep. Sanchez's and Sen. Menendez's offices were on hand to discuss their bills, and I provided some feedback based upon what Berin and I concluded in our paper. It was a good discussion and I encourage you to watch the whole thing because there were some good questions from the audience later in the show.
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:28 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, June 29,
2009
Facebook, Twitter, Online Identity Integration & the Future of Anonymity
The Wired article ("Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet -- and Keep Google Out ") I discussed yesterday touched on another issue near & dear to my heart (besides the importance of smarter advertising): the future of online anonymity. The article lays out Facebook's "4-Step Plan for Online Domination," which involves "colonizing" the web though Facebook's Connect (launched Dec. 2008) and Open Stream API (launched April 2009) initiatives, which:
don't just allow users to access their Facebook networks from anywhere online. They also help realize Facebook's longtime vision of giving users a unique, Web-wide online profile. By linking Web activity to Facebook accounts, they begin to replace the largely anonymous "no one knows you're a dog" version of online identity with one in which every action is tied to who users really are.
To hear Facebook executives tell it, this will make online interactions more meaningful and more personal. Imagine, for example, if online comments were written by people using their real names rather than by anonymous trolls. "Up until now all the advancements in technology have said information and data are the most important thing," says Dave Morin , Facebook's senior platform manager. "The most important thing to us is that there is a person sitting behind that keyboard. We think the Internet is about people."
The bolded prediction of what I would call "Online Identity Integration" is already happening. To take one tiny example, readers can now post comments on the TLF by logging into Disqus (our Comment Management System) through their Facebook (or Twitter) account, which will also allow them to automatically share those comments on Facebook (or Twitter). This is purely opt-in: Users are free to continue to post anonymous comments. But as more websites and platforms implement such Identity Integration functionality, a growing percentage of online speech will be tied to profiles offered by major social networks.
Some free speech advocates are sure to bemoan Identity Integration as directly undermining online anonymity.
Continue reading Facebook, Twitter, Online Identity Integration & the Future of Anonymity . . .
posted by Berin Szoka @ 10:09 PM |
Free Speech , Privacy
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Friday, June 19,
2009
Cyberbullying Legislation: Why Education is Preferable to Regulation
By Berin Szoka & Adam Thierer
We've just released a new PFF white paper (PDF ) entitled, "Cyberbullying Legislation: Why Education is Preferable to Regulation ." In this 24-page study we note that, compared to previous fears about online predation, which have been greatly overblown, concerns about cyberbullying are more well-founded. Evidence suggests the cyberbullying is on the rise and that it can have profoundly damaging consequences for children.
Unsurprisingly, in the wake of a handful of high-profile cyberbullying incidents that resulted in teen/tween suicides, some state lawmakers began floating legislation to address the issue. More recently, two very different federal approaches have been proposed. One approach is focused on the creation of a new federal crime to punish cyberbullying, which would include fines and jail time for violators. In April 2008, Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA) introduced H.R. 1966 (originally H.R. 6123 ), the "Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act," a bill that would create a new federal felony:
"Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
The other legislative approach is education-based and would create an Internet safety education grant program to address the issue in schools and communities. In mid-May, the "School and Family Education about the Internet (SAFE Internet) Act" (
S. 1047 ) was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and in the House by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). The measure proposes an Internet safety education grant program that will be administered by the Department of Justice, in concurrence with the Department of Education, and the Department of Health & Human Services. These agencies will also work in consultation with education, Internet safety, and other relevant experts to administer a five-year grant program, under which each grant will be awarded for a two-year period.
Continue reading Cyberbullying Legislation: Why Education is Preferable to Regulation . . .
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:21 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Thursday, June 18,
2009
Behavioral Advertising Industry Practices Hearing: Some Issues that Need to be Discussed
by Berin Szoka & Adam Thierer
This morning, the House Energy & Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on "Behavioral Advertising: Industry Practices And Consumers' Expectations ." If nothing else, it promises to be quite entertaining: With full-time Google bashers Jeff Chester and Scott Cleland on the agenda, the likelihood that top Google officials will be burned in effigy appears high!
Chester, self-appointed spokesman for what one might call the People for the Ethical Treatment of Data (PETD) movement, is sure to rant and rave about the impending techno-apocalypse that will, like all his other Chicken-Little scenarios, befall us all if online advertisers were permitted to better tailor ads to consumers' liking. After all, can you imagine the nightmare of less annoying ads that might actually convey more useful information to consumers? Isn't serving up "untargeted" dumb banner ads for Viagra to young women and Victoria's Secret ads to Catholic school kids the pinnacle of modern online advertising? God forbid we actually make advertising more relevant and interest-based! (Those Catholic school boys may appreciate the lingerie ads, but few will likely buy bras.)
Anyway, according to National Journal's Tech Daily Dose , the hearing lineup also includes:
Charles Curran, Executive Director, Network Advertising Initiative
Christopher Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook
Edward Felten, Director, Center for IT Policy, Princeton University
Anne Toth, Chief Privacy Officer & Vice President, Policy, Yahoo!
Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel, Google
That's an interesting group and we're sure that they will say interesting things about the issue. Nonetheless, because four of them have a corporate affiliation that fact will inevitably be used by some critics to dismiss what they have to say about the sensibility of more targeted or interest-based forms of online advertising. So, we'd like to offer a few thoughts and pose a few questions to make sure that Committee members understand why, regardless of what it means for any particular online operator,
targeting online advertising is very pro-consumer and essential to the future of online content, culture, and competition . As
Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg
has noted , "Advertising is the mother's milk of all the mass media." Much of the "free speech" we all cherish isn't really free, but ad-supported!
Continue reading Behavioral Advertising Industry Practices Hearing: Some Issues that Need to be Discussed . . .
posted by Berin Szoka @ 12:29 AM |
Advertising , E-commerce , Free Speech
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Wednesday, June 17,
2009
China's Green Dam Filter and the Threat of Rising Global Censorship
Rebecca MacKinnon has an important piece in the Wall Street Journal today about China's "Green Dam Youth Escort " filtering mandate and the danger of this model catching on with other governments. "More and more governments -- including democracies like Britain, Australia and Germany -- are trying to control public behavior online, especially by exerting pressure on Internet service providers," she notes. "Green Dam has only exposed the next frontier in these efforts: the personal computer."
She's right, and that's cause for serious concern. Moreover, there's the question of how corporations doing business in China should respond to demands and threats related to installing such filters. She notes:
In a world that includes child pornographers and violent hate groups, it is probably not reasonable to oppose all censorship in all situations. But if technical censorship systems are to be put in place, they must be sufficiently transparent and accountable so that they do not become opaque extensions of incumbent power -- or get hijacked by politically influential interest groups without the public knowing exactly what is going on.
Which brings us back to companies: the ones that build and run Internet and telecoms networks, host and publish speech, and that now make devices via which citizens can go online and create more speech. Companies have a duty as global citizens to do all they can to protect users' universally recognized right to free expression, and to avoid becoming opaque extensions of incumbent power -- be it in China or Britain.
I generally agree with all that but this is a difficult issue and one that I have struggled with personally. (See this
"Friendly Conversation about Corporate High-Tech Engagement with China " that Jim Harper and I had three years ago). But I do hope that more companies take a hard line with the Chinese as well as there own governemnts when it comes to filtering mandates or even restricitve parental control defaults and settings [an issue I wrote more about in this paper: "
The Perils of Mandatory Parental Controls and Restrictive Defaults ."] On that note, kudos to the business groups that already
signed on to a joint letter oppossing China's new filtering mandate.
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:49 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Friday, June 5,
2009
First Amendment Protection of Search Algorithms as Editorial Discretion
Cory Doctorow has called for a Wikipedia-style effort to build an open source, non-profit search engine. From his column in The Guardian :
What's more, the way that search engines determine the ranking and relevance of any given website has become more critical than the editorial berth at the New York Times combined with the chief spots at the major TV networks. Good search engine placement is make-or-break advertising. It's ideological mindshare. It's relevance...
It's a terrible idea to vest this much power with one company, even one as fun, user-centered and technologically excellent as Google. It's too much power for a handful of companies to wield.
The question of what we can and can't see when we go hunting for answers demands a transparent, participatory solution. There's no dictator benevolent enough to entrust with the power to determine our political, commercial, social and ideological agenda. This is one for The People.
Put that way, it's obvious: if search engines set the public agenda, they should be public.
He
goes on to claim that "Google's algorithms are editorial decisions." For Doctorow, this is an
outrage : "so much editorial power is better vested in big, transparent, public entities than a few giant private concerns."
I wish Doctorow well in his effort to crowdsource a Google-killer, but I'm more than a little skeptical that anyone would actually want to use his search engine of The People. My guess is that, like most things produced in the name of "The People" (Soviet toilet paper comes to mind), it will probably won't be much fun to use, and will likely chafe noticeably. (For the record, I love and regularly use Wikipedia; I just don't think that model is unlikely to produce a particularly useful search engine. As Doctorow himself has noted of Google, "they make incredibly awesome search tools.")
But I'm glad to see that Doctorow has conceded an important point of constitutional law: The First Amendment protects the editorial discretion of search engines, like all private companies, to decide what to content to communicate . For a newspaper, that means deciding which articles or editorials to run. For a library or bookstore, it means which books to carry. For search engines, it means how to write their search algorithims.
Continue reading First Amendment Protection of Search Algorithms as Editorial Discretion . . .
posted by Berin Szoka @ 8:23 AM |
Advertising , Free Speech , Googlephobia , Internet , Search
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Monday, June 1,
2009
Thomas Sowell on the Model that Drives Elitist Ideological Crusades
Berin recently encouraged me to re-read Thomas Sowell's The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy , which I hadn't looked at since I first read it back in 1995 or 96. I'm glad I did since Sowell's work has always been profoundly influential on my thinking (especially his masterpiece, A Conflict of Visions ) and I had forgotten how useful The Vision of the Anointed was in helping me understand the reoccurring model that drives ideological crusades to expand government power over our lives and economy.
"The great ideological crusades of the twentieth-century intellectuals have ranged across the most disparate fields," Sowell noted in the book. But what they all had in common, he argued, was "their moral exaltation of the anointed above others, who are to have their different views nullified and superseded by the views of the anointed, imposed via the power of government." (p. 5) These elitist, government-expanding crusades shared several key elements, which Sowell identified as follows:
Assertion of a great danger to the whole society, a danger to which the masses of people are oblivious.
An urgent need for government action to avert impending catastrophe.
A need for government to drastically curtail the dangerous behavior of the many, in response to the prescient conclusions of the few.
A disdainful dismissal of arguments to the contrary as either uninformed, irresponsible, or motivated by unworthy purposes.
You can see this model at work on a daily basis today with our government's various efforts to reshape our economy, but I think this model is equally applicable to debates over social policy and speech control. In particular, the various "technopanics" I have been writing about recently fit this model. (See
1 ,
2 ,
3 ,
4 ,
5 ). For example, consider how this plays out in the debate over online social networking:
Continue reading Thomas Sowell on the Model that Drives Elitist Ideological Crusades . . .
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:15 PM |
Books & Book Reviews , Free Speech , Generic Rant , Online Safety & Parental Controls , Privacy
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Sunday, May 31,
2009
Free Speech Implications of COPPA Expansion
As Berin mentioned last week , we have a new paper out on proposals to expand the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998. We generically refer to those COPPA-expansion efforts as "COPPA 2.0." Hence, the title of our paper: "COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speech ." To recap what Berin already noted, in the name of improving online child safety, some legislators and state attorneys general (AGs) are advocating the expansion of COPPA's "verifiable parental consent" model of age verification before certain sites or services may collect, or enable the sharing of, personal information for children.
Unlike "COPPA 1.0," however, which only applied to children under the age of 13, "COPPA 2.0" would apply to all minors up to age 17. Moreover, the range of sites covered by the new law would generally be expanded to include just about any site or service with social networking functionality.
Since Berin has already summarized our general concerns with efforts to expand COPPA's "verifiable parental consent" online age verification system to cover more online users and sites, I thought I would focus here on what I believe will be the most controversial (and important) part of our paper -- our discussion about how COPPA 2.0 affects the speech rights of both adults and adolescents.
Continue reading Free Speech Implications of COPPA Expansion . . .
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:22 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, May 27,
2009
COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speech
Adam Thierer & I have just released a detailed examination (PDF ) of brewing efforts to expand the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to cover adolescents and potentially all social networking sites--an approach we call "COPPA 2.0."
As Adam explained on Larry Magid's CNET podcast , COPPA mandates certain online privacy protections for children under 13, most importantly that websites obtain the "verifiable consent" of a child's parent before collecting personal information about that child or giving that child access to interactive functionality that might allow the child to share their personal information with others. The law was intended primarily to "enhance parental involvement in a child's online activities" as a means of protecting the online privacy and safety of children.
Yet advocates of expanding COPPA--or "COPPA 2.0"--see COPPA's verifiable parental consent framework as a means for imposing broad regulatory mandates in the name of online child safety and concerns about social networking, cyber-harassment, etc . Two COPPA 2.0 bills are currently pending in New Jersey and Illinois . The accelerated review of COPPA to be conducted by the FTC next year (five years ahead of schedule) is likely to bring to Washington serious talk of expanding COPPA--even though Congress clearly rejected covering adolescents age 13-16 when COPPA was first proposed back in 1998.
We'll discuss some of the key points of our paper in a series of blog posts, but here are the top nine reasons for rejecting COPPA 2.0, in that such an approach would:
Burden the free speech rights of adults by imposing age verification mandates on many sites used by adults, thus restricting anonymous speech and essentially converging--in terms of practical consequences--with the unconstitutional Children's Online Protection Act (COPA ), another 1998 law sometimes confused with COPPA; Burden the free speech rights of adolescents to speak freely on--or gather information from--legal and socially beneficial websites; Hamper routine and socially beneficial communication between adolescents and adults; Reduce, rather than enhance, the privacy of adolescents, parents and other adults because of the massive volume of personal information that would have to be collected about users for authentication purposes (likely including credit card data);
Continue reading COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speech . . .
posted by Berin Szoka @ 10:38 PM |
Advertising , Free Speech , Privacy
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Thursday, May 21,
2009
Calif. Appeals Video Game Decision to Supremes; What if They Take It?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:31 PM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, May 20,
2009
Reply Comments in FCC's "Child Safe Viewing Act" Notice of Inquiry
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:00 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Thursday, May 14,
2009
Emerging Threats to Section 230
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:25 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, May 12,
2009
Jim Moran, Erectile Dysfunction, and Prudery Disguised as Policy
posted by W. Kenneth Ferree @ 10:34 AM |
Capitol Hill , Free Speech , Mass Media
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Cato Unbound Debate: Lessig's Code at Ten (Part 4: Lessig's response)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:15 AM |
Books & Book Reviews , Capitalism , Commons , Economics , Free Speech , Generic Rant , Innovation , Internet
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Friday, May 8,
2009
Cato Unbound Debate: Lessig's Code at Ten (Part 3: Thierer response)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:12 AM |
Books & Book Reviews , Commons , Economics , Free Speech , Generic Rant , Innovation , Internet , Regulation
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Thursday, April 30,
2009
The "Firstness" of the First Amendment
posted by Barbara Esbin @ 10:38 AM |
Free Speech , Internet Governance , The FCC
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Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 6: Other Articles & Opinions)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:25 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, April 29,
2009
Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 5: The Dissents)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:15 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, April 28,
2009
NTIA names Online Safety Technical Working Group members
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:07 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 4: The Thomas Concurrence)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:25 PM |
Free Speech , Supreme Court
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Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 3: The Majority Decision)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:16 PM |
Free Speech , Supreme Court
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Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 2: Initial Thoughts)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:24 AM |
Free Speech
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Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 1: The Decision)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:11 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, April 23,
2009
Collier on "Why Technopanics are Bad"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:12 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, April 20,
2009
Major Filings in FCC's "Child Safe Viewing Act" Notice of Inquiry
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:41 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, April 15,
2009
Comments in FCC "Child Safe Viewing Act" Proceeding
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:51 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Friday, March 27,
2009
Shall We Save Media by Socializing It?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:57 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, March 12,
2009
Video Presentation: "America's First Amendment Twilight Zone"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:28 PM |
Free Speech
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Friday, March 6,
2009
The Future of Sec. 230 and Online Immunity: My Debate with Harvard's John Palfrey
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:41 PM |
Free Speech , Internet , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, March 3,
2009
Dawn of Convergence-Era Content Regulation at the FCC? "Child Safe Viewing Act" NOI Launched
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:44 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Sunday, March 1,
2009
Another Reminder Why Age Verification Mandates Would Be a Bad Idea
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:08 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls , Privacy
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The Week the Fairness Doctrine Died
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:48 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Friday, February 27,
2009
New PFF Study: "Who Needs Parental Controls?"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:05 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, February 25,
2009
When Conservatives Favored the Fairness Doctrine
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:09 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Sunday, February 22,
2009
Will VSDA v. Schwarzenegger Be First Major Supreme Court Video Game Case?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:40 PM |
Free Speech
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Friday, February 20,
2009
New Article on "FCC v Fox and Future of First Amendment"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:49 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, February 18,
2009
Don't Worry about the Fairness Doctrine. No, Wait, Strike That.
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:04 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media , Wireline
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Monday, February 16,
2009
The AutoAdmit Case and the Future of Sec. 230
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:44 PM |
Free Speech , Internet Governance
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Sunday, February 15,
2009
Internet Security Concerns, Online Anonymity, and Splinternets
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:43 PM |
Free Speech , Innovation , Internet Governance
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Thursday, February 12,
2009
CRS Report on History of Fairness Doctrine
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:36 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Monday, February 2,
2009
Nancy Willard Puts Social Networking Risks in Context
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:34 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, January 27,
2009
Some Great Podcasts about Online Safety & the ISTTF
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:29 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, January 26,
2009
Are Gamers Served by More Government Regulation and Spending?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:05 PM |
Free Speech , Net Neutrality , Universal Service
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Friday, January 23,
2009
Video Games and "Moral Panic"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:57 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, January 22,
2009
Book Review: Post's Jefferson's Moose & the State of Cyberspace
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:10 PM |
Books & Book Reviews , Free Speech , IP , Internet , Internet Governance
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Wednesday, January 21,
2009
Closing the Book on COPA?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:25 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, January 13,
2009
Internet Safety Technical Task Force releases final report
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:13 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, January 12,
2009
Web 2.0, Section 230, and Nozick's "Utopia of Utopias"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:33 PM |
Free Speech
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Ars on "Better FCC Indecency Complaints"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:50 PM |
Free Speech , The FCC
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Thursday, January 8,
2009
What Impact Will Cass Sunstein Have on Obama's Internet Policy?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:49 PM |
Free Speech , Generic Rant
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Monday, December 22,
2008
Kids, Video Games, Fantasy, & Imagination
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:10 PM |
Free Speech
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Sunday, December 14,
2008
Martin Abandons Unconstitutional Filtering Proposal; What About Obama's Universal Broadband?
posted by Berin Szoka @ 4:18 PM |
Broadband , Free Speech , Internet
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Sunday, December 7,
2008
George Will on Fairness Doctrine
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:57 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, December 4,
2008
My debate with USA Today about new study on media & kids
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:59 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, December 3,
2008
Podcast of Fairness Doctrine Discussion on Jim Bohannon Show
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:32 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media , Podcasts
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Tuesday, December 2,
2008
"Child Safe Viewing Act" (S. 602) signed by President Bush
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:02 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Latest Lichtman podcast on privacy, Sec. 230, online liability
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:34 PM |
Free Speech , Podcasts , Privacy
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Thursday, November 20,
2008
debating FCC's Kevin Martin and U.S. Solicitor General Gregory Garre this weekend
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:48 PM |
Free Speech
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Putting Youth Social Networking Activities and Safety in Perspective
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:52 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, November 19,
2008
Net Neutrality, Free Speech, and Tim Lee's New Paper
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:24 PM |
Free Speech , Net Neutrality
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Saturday, November 15,
2008
NYT Article on Age Verification & Schools
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:59 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Saturday, November 8,
2008
Harry Lewis on "The Dangers of Internet Censorship"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:22 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, November 4,
2008
Supreme Court oral arguments in FCC v. Fox (General Thoughts)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:18 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, November 3,
2008
Video Games, Violence, & Social "Science": Another Day, Another Fight
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:06 PM |
Free Speech
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Supreme Court oral arguments in FCC v. Fox (Background)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:14 PM |
Free Speech
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Sunday, November 2,
2008
What's More Dangerous: The Internet or Drunk Drivers?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:11 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, October 29,
2008
Video Game Censorship Heading to Supreme Court?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:09 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, October 28,
2008
Reason Magazine on What Obama Means for Tech Policy
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:02 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Monday, October 27,
2008
Irony Alert: Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Public to Hear Free Speech Case Live
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:50 PM |
Free Speech , Supreme Court
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Tuesday, October 21,
2008
3rd Annual "National Freedom of Speech Week"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:16 PM |
Free Speech
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Friday, October 10,
2008
book review: Palfrey & Gasser's "Born Digital"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:23 PM |
Books & Book Reviews , Free Speech , Generic Rant , Online Safety & Parental Controls , Privacy
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Monday, October 6,
2008
Jenkins on new Pew report about "Teens, Video Games, and Civics"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:27 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, October 2,
2008
Senate passes "Child Safe Viewing Act" (S. 602)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:19 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, October 1,
2008
"A Manifesto for Media Freedom" -- my new book with Brian Anderson
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:26 AM |
Books & Book Reviews , Campaign Finance Law , Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, September 25,
2008
Age Verification Debate Continues; Schools Now at Center of Discussion
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:07 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls , Privacy
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Friday, September 19,
2008
PFF filing in FCC product placement / embedded advertising inquiry
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:41 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Tuesday, September 16,
2008
Version 3.1 release: "Parental Controls & Online Child Protection"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:08 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, September 3,
2008
DVRs Becoming an "Indispensable" Household Item
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:17 PM |
Free Speech , Innovation
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Monday, September 1,
2008
The End of "the American Internet" and the Future of Content Controls
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:07 PM |
Free Speech , Internet Governance
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Monday, August 25,
2008
An Unnatural Modern Fascination with Murder and Celebrities?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:15 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, August 12,
2008
FCC v. Fox Television : All the Supreme Court briefs are in
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:03 PM |
Free Speech
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Get Ready for Internet Advertising Regulation "for the Children"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:25 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Friday, August 8,
2008
CDT-PFF Supreme Court Brief in FCC v. Fox Case
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:19 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, August 5,
2008
True Cost of Video Game Censorship (continued)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:45 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, July 30,
2008
Product Placement in Historical Context
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:22 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Tuesday, July 29,
2008
NPR spot on Third Circuit decision in Janet Jackson case
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:18 PM |
Free Speech , Supreme Court
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Joint FCC Filing on Internet Filtering Plan for AWS-3 Spectrum
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:20 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls , Spectrum
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Monday, July 28,
2008
Australian ISP-Level Content Filtering Report Released
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:10 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, July 24,
2008
COPA Falls Again; Is Historic 3rd Trip to Supremes Coming?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:57 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, July 22,
2008
"Scientific" Media Ratings & Labels: What Exactly Does That Mean?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:49 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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2008 edition of "Essential Facts about Video Games" is out
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:54 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, July 21,
2008
3rd Circuit ruling against FCC in Janet Jackson case
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:51 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, July 17,
2008
Dear Gov. Patterson... Regarding that Video Game Bill You Are About to Sign
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:44 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Saturday, July 12,
2008
The Next Great Technopanic: Wireless Geo-Location / Social Mapping
posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:46 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls , Wireless
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Friday, July 11,
2008
A La Carte Regulation and the Failure of Good Intentions
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:02 PM |
A La Carte , Free Speech
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Thursday, July 10,
2008
Technopanics and the Great Social Networking Scare
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:07 PM |
Books & Book Reviews , Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, July 8,
2008
Liberals Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 3: The Fox Case
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:38 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, July 3,
2008
Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 6 (Further reading)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:31 PM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, July 2,
2008
Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 5 (CDT-PFF joint editorial)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:00 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, July 1,
2008
Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 4 (Pervasiveness is Moot)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:08 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Understanding The True Cost of Video Game Censorship Efforts
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:51 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Friday, June 27,
2008
Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 3 (Pacifica's Pretzel Logic)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:01 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, June 26,
2008
Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 2 (Brief History of Indecency Enforcement)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:56 PM |
Free Speech
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Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 1 (General Overview)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:47 PM |
Free Speech
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Friday, June 6,
2008
What's Worse Than Rigged Auctions & Internet Censorship? How About Both in One Package!
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:05 PM |
Broadband , Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls , Spectrum
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Thursday, May 22,
2008
Cellphones, Freedom and the Cuban Embargo
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:43 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, May 15,
2008
Forbes on "Making Social [Networking] Sites Safer"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:13 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, May 12,
2008
Will they age-verify the Pope?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:19 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Thursday, May 8,
2008
latest FTC "secret shopper" survey shows improving ratings enforcement
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:10 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, May 5,
2008
Virginia points the way on Internet safety
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:26 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Sunday, May 4,
2008
Obama on Grand Theft Auto and personal responsibility
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:59 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Saturday, May 3,
2008
When gamers go mainstream
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:05 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, April 28,
2008
Why both the Left & Right love media regulation
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:29 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Wednesday, April 23,
2008
review: Dr. Kourosh Dini's "Video Game Play & Addiction"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:23 PM |
Books & Book Reviews , Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Students, Cyber-Bullying, & Online Free Speech
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:21 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, April 22,
2008
Video games, pro wrestling, and the politics of hypocrisy
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:41 PM |
Free Speech , Generic Rant
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Wednesday, April 16,
2008
Can the French really ban pro-thin websites?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:10 PM |
Free Speech , Internet Governance
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Monday, April 14,
2008
review: Kutner & Olson's "Grand Theft Childhood"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:42 PM |
Books & Book Reviews , Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Friday, April 11,
2008
The Perils of Mandatory Parental Controls and Restrictive Defaults
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:14 PM |
Free Speech
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Shall we censor newspapers "for the children"?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:15 AM |
Free Speech
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Friday, April 4,
2008
presentation at PSU's conference on future of video games
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:45 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, March 27,
2008
Byron Commission (UK) report - initial thoughts
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:57 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, March 26,
2008
Google's excellent new online safety campaign
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:13 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Palfrey on trends in global cybercensorship
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:58 AM |
Books & Book Reviews , Free Speech , Internet Governance
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"Parental Controls and Online Child Protection" - Version 3.0 release
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:56 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, March 18,
2008
Tibet, Technology & the Future of Freedom
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:56 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, March 17,
2008
Video Games, Ratings & Transparency: A Response to Jerry Bonner
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:57 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, March 11,
2008
USA Today's story about the Martin FCC
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:26 AM |
Cable , Free Speech , Generic Rant , Mass Media , The FCC
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Tuesday, March 4,
2008
Net gambling & online speech / commerce enforcement challenges in general
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:37 AM |
E-commerce , Free Speech , Gambling , Internet Governance
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Friday, February 29,
2008
Putting online dangers in perspective
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:43 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Australian government online safety report
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:28 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Kids and Media
posted by Amy Smorodin @ 10:29 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Thursday, February 28,
2008
new Internet Safety Technical Task Force
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:40 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, February 27,
2008
Mobile phone censorship regime coming?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:02 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, February 26,
2008
Are All Video Games Violent?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:48 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, February 20,
2008
Scalia on video game regulation
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:46 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Friday, February 15,
2008
Leading pornographer lecturing Google & Yahoo about cleaning up online porn
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:59 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, February 11,
2008
Criminal sanctions for poor parental judgment?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:27 PM |
Free Speech
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Who decides what's appropriate for our families?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:47 AM |
Free Speech
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New Mexico's video game nanny tax
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:11 AM |
Free Speech , Taxes
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Wednesday, February 6,
2008
new PFF-CDT index of free speech / content bills
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Friday, February 1,
2008
Good for Obama: He favors parental empowerment over censorship
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:11 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, January 28,
2008
Google's political advertising guidelines
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:25 AM |
Campaign Finance Law , Free Speech
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Friday, January 25,
2008
Remembering how lucky we are
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:23 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, January 23,
2008
USA Today, age verification, and the death of online anonymity
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:07 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Student free speech or online harassment ?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:30 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, January 22,
2008
"The End of Censorship" -- The book I never finished
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:37 PM |
Books & Book Reviews , Free Speech
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Monday, January 14,
2008
Today’s MySpace-AG Agreement
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:41 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls , Privacy
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Friday, January 11,
2008
FOSI's "State of Online Safety Report 2008"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:00 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, January 2,
2008
Richard Roeper on regulating in-flight movies
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:24 PM |
Free Speech
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Friday, December 14,
2007
Latest Census Numbers on Kids, Parents & Media
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:27 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, November 20,
2007
Why hasn't violent media turned us into a nation of killers?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:12 PM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, October 24,
2007
Troubling poll regarding attitudes toward Net regulation
posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:04 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Sunday, October 21,
2007
FT on age verification for social networking
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:31 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Thursday, October 18,
2007
Response to Christian Coalition-NARAL call for net neutrality regs
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:07 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media , Net Neutrality
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Thursday, October 11,
2007
Parental Control Perfection
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:42 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, October 3,
2007
Should Government Censor In-Flight Movies?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:46 PM |
Free Speech
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NY Times Gets it Wrong on IM Blocking & the First Amendment
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:02 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, September 27,
2007
New Online Safety Bills
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:53 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, September 11,
2007
New Technology Meets Old Constitutionalism
posted by Amy Smorodin @ 9:30 AM |
Free Speech
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Friday, September 7,
2007
Who Killed TV's "Family Hour"?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:30 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, September 4,
2007
New Mobile Parental Controls
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:32 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Friday, August 31,
2007
PBS to self-censor WWII documentary to appease FCC
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:37 PM |
Free Speech
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Sunday, August 26,
2007
Tribe: Net Neutrality Violates First Amendment
posted by Ray Gifford @ 4:31 PM |
Broadband , Communications , Free Speech , Net Neutrality
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Thursday, August 23,
2007
Laurence Tribe on the First Amendment & Technological Change
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:13 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, August 22,
2007
NY Times on Video Game Cases
posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:50 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, August 7,
2007
First Amendment & Video Games [Updated] Score: Gamers 11, Censors 0
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:35 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, July 31,
2007
PFF analysis of S. 602, "The Child Safe Viewing Act"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:43 PM |
Free Speech
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Patrick & Hazlett on Fairness Doctrine
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:42 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, July 26,
2007
Age Verification Showdown in North Carolina
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:44 PM |
Free Speech
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Version 2.2 of PFF book on "Parental Controls & Online Child Protection"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:19 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, July 11,
2007
Senate Plan to Roll Back Clock on Broadcast Regulation
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:36 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, July 5,
2007
China and the Internet
posted by Solveig Singleton @ 11:11 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, July 2,
2007
"Child Safety" -- 100 Years Ago vs. Today
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:30 PM |
Free Speech , Generic Rant , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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law review article: "Why Regulate Broadcasting?"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:33 AM |
Free Speech
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Sunday, July 1,
2007
Summary of 10-Part Series on "National Internet Safety Month"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:54 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Saturday, June 30,
2007
Internet Safety Month, Part 10: Good Parenting Means Everything!
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:30 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, June 26,
2007
Sen. Rockefeller Gives Up on Parenting at Senate Violence Hearing
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:46 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, June 25,
2007
New Polls Suggest Radical Theory: Parents are Parenting!
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:03 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Good Idea! Censorship as Trade Barrier
posted by Solveig Singleton @ 11:51 AM |
Free Speech
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Sunday, June 24,
2007
Internet Safety Month, Part 9: Online Safety and Law Enforcement Efforts
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:27 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Friday, June 22,
2007
testimony at House hearing on "The Images Kids See on the Screen"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:35 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, June 20,
2007
new book on Parental Controls & Online Child Protection
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:50 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Sunday, June 17,
2007
Event Transcript: "The Complexities of Regulating TV Violence"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:55 PM |
Free Speech
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Internet Safety Month, Part 8: Social Networking Safety
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:31 PM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Tuesday, June 12,
2007
Internet Safety Month, Part 7: The Importance of Online Safety Education
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Thursday, June 7,
2007
Internet Safety Month, Part 6: A Voluntary Code of Conduct for Online Safety
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Wednesday, June 6,
2007
More from the Onion
posted by Solveig Singleton @ 2:24 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, June 5,
2007
Internet Safety Month, Part 5: Search Engine Filters and Portals for Kids
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:34 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Monday, June 4,
2007
2nd Circuit rules in FCC indecency case
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:03 PM |
Free Speech
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Internet Safety Month, Part 4: Website Labeling and Metadata Tagging
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Internet Safety Month, Part 3: Operating Systems and Web Browser Controls
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:01 AM |
Free Speech , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Sunday, June 3,
2007
Internet Safety Month, Part 1: Online Safety Metasites
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:52 AM |
Free Speech , General , Online Safety & Parental Controls
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Thursday, May 31,
2007
A La Carte & the Senate Effort to Regulate TV Violence
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:16 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, May 29,
2007
Regulate In-Flight Movies & TV Content?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:35 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, May 21,
2007
Making a Stink about Smoking in Movies
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:34 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, May 14,
2007
new PFF report & event on regulating TV violence
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:47 PM |
Free Speech
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Transcript & Video from "Facts about Online Victimization" event
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:32 PM |
Free Speech
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Sunday, May 13,
2007
Transcript of PFF Age Verification (3/23) event
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:50 PM |
Free Speech , Privacy
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Wednesday, May 9,
2007
Second Life to Adopt Age Verification
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:30 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media , Privacy
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Monday, May 7,
2007
New York Times article on Age Verification for Social Networking Sites
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:14 AM |
Free Speech , Privacy
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Video Game Ratings are Widely Utilized
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, May 1,
2007
Video Game Politics
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:59 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, April 30,
2007
Public Radio Debate on Regulating TV Violence
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:30 PM |
Free Speech
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More Essays on Efforts to Regulate TV Violence
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:25 PM |
Free Speech
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George Will on Fairness Doctrine Revival
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:43 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, April 26,
2007
FCC Violence Report Concludes that Parenting Doesn’t Work
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:20 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, April 24,
2007
FCC Media Violence Report Looms
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:23 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, April 16,
2007
Don Imus and the FCC: Should Hate Speech be Regulated?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:29 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, April 12,
2007
FTC's Latest "Marketing Violence to Children" Report
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:34 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, April 10,
2007
Jeff Schmidt on Age Verification and Online Child Safety
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:11 PM |
Free Speech , Privacy
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Monday, April 9,
2007
Confessions of a First Generation Gamer-Parent
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:33 PM |
Free Speech , Generic Rant
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A La Carte Regulation and "Family-Friendly" Programming
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:13 AM |
A La Carte , Free Speech
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Friday, April 6,
2007
A Few Thoughts on ICANN's Rejection of ".xxx" TLD
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:38 AM |
Free Speech , Internet Governance
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Tuesday, April 3,
2007
Forbes.com interview on social networking panic
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:38 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, March 26,
2007
Distorting Numbers in the Debate over Parental Controls
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:05 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, March 22,
2007
COPA Struck Down, Part 2
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:46 AM |
Free Speech
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COPA Struck Down Again by Court
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:39 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, March 21,
2007
Campaign Finance Laws & YouTube (cont.)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:22 AM |
Campaign Finance Law , Free Speech
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Tuesday, March 20,
2007
Debunking Myths about Social Networking
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:42 PM |
Free Speech , Privacy
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Monday, March 19,
2007
New PFF Study on Age Verification for Social Networking Sites
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:45 AM |
Free Speech , Privacy
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Wednesday, March 7,
2007
Remarks at Freedom to Connect conference
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:13 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, March 6,
2007
Campaign Finance Laws in the YouTube Age
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:14 PM |
Campaign Finance Law , Free Speech
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Monday, March 5,
2007
Age-Verify Users Before They Visit USA Today.com?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:29 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, March 1,
2007
Chapman on Illogical Gov't Nannyism
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:58 PM |
Free Speech
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Sunday, February 25,
2007
Movie Review: "This Film Is Not Yet Rated"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:07 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, February 22,
2007
An Education-Based Approach to Online Child Safety
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:55 PM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, February 21,
2007
"Blogging should not be a crime."
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:59 PM |
Free Speech
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Geoffrey Stone on a National Shield Law
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:10 PM |
Free Speech
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Sunday, February 18,
2007
Regulating Violence on TV: Some Recommended Reading
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:24 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, February 7,
2007
"Project Online Safety" and Other New Internet Safety Initiatives
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:28 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, January 30,
2007
Democrats Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 2: Regulating "Excessive Violence" on TV
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:58 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, January 29,
2007
Democrats Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 1: The Fairness Doctrine
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:37 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Wednesday, January 17,
2007
MySpace to Provide Parental Monitoring Tools
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:20 PM |
Free Speech
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Sunday, January 7,
2007
Dispatch from CES: Day 1 -- Gaming Issues
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:05 PM |
Free Speech , Generic Rant , Mass Media
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Thursday, December 21,
2006
A Bad Day in Court for the FCC
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:19 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, December 14,
2006
"Dangerous" Toys -- Then and Now
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:10 PM |
Free Speech , Generic Rant
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Tuesday, December 12,
2006
Another Non-Solution to the Online Predator Problem
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:19 AM |
Free Speech , Generic Rant
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Wednesday, December 6,
2006
Have We Reached a Turning Point on Video Game Regulation?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:51 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, November 30,
2006
CDT & PFF File Joint Amicus Briefs in Federal Indecency Cases
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:09 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, November 29,
2006
Appearance on C-SPAN's "The Communicators"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:11 AM |
Communications , DACA , Free Speech , General , Mass Media , Spectrum , Universal Service
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First Amendment & Video Games Score: Gamers 10, Censors 0
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:24 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, November 9,
2006
Democratic "Innovation Agenda" Smells Like Pork, Tastes Like Regulation
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:31 PM |
Free Speech , Generic Rant
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Monday, October 30,
2006
Another Reason to Be Wary of Age Verification & Data Retention Mandates
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:42 PM |
Free Speech , Privacy
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Thursday, October 26,
2006
Can Government Improve Video Game Ratings?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:09 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, October 19,
2006
Lock 'Em Up and Throw Away the Key
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:46 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, October 18,
2006
Another Call for Data Retention Mandates
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:57 PM |
Free Speech , Privacy
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Iran Battles the Digital Future & Global Culture
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:13 PM |
Free Speech , Internet Governance
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Tuesday, October 17,
2006
UK Fighting the Good Fight
posted by Patrick Ross @ 11:42 AM |
Free Speech , Internet , Mass Media
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The Ultimate Online Predator Solution
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:01 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, October 16,
2006
National Freedom of Speech Week
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:00 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, October 12,
2006
A Response to Sen. Lieberman's Online Child Protection Manifesto
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:49 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, October 5,
2006
IM: The Next Regulatory Target?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:33 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, September 25,
2006
RAND on Economic Impact of EU's "TV Without Frontiers" Directive
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:20 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Wednesday, September 20,
2006
My Filing in Latest FCC Indecency Proceeding
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:19 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, September 19,
2006
Who Can Film Video Clips at a Pro Football Stadium?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:25 AM |
Free Speech
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Friday, September 15,
2006
Summary of Latest ICRA Summit on Internet Free Expression & Child Protection
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:27 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, September 12,
2006
Know Your (Blogging) Rights: Net Democracy Guide.org
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:22 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, September 7,
2006
More on Social Networking Regulatory Threats
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:15 PM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, September 6,
2006
Do's and Dont's for Media Regulation
posted by Patrick Ross @ 10:23 AM |
Free Speech , IP , Innovation , Internet , Mass Media
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Tuesday, August 29,
2006
UK Censors Tom & Jerry Cartoons
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:36 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, August 9,
2006
AOL, Search Records and Privacy
posted by Patrick Ross @ 4:55 PM |
Free Speech , Privacy
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Another Case of "Rights Inflation": Sports on Cable TV
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:56 PM |
A La Carte , Cable , Economics , Free Speech , Generic Rant , Mass Media , Sports
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Wednesday, August 2,
2006
"The Protection of Minors Needs to be Guaranteed"
posted by Patrick Ross @ 12:25 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, August 1,
2006
Another First Amendment Victory for Video Games
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:31 PM |
Free Speech
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A Voluntary Online Code of Conduct to Avoid Internet Censorship
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:09 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, July 27,
2006
Another Push for Cable Censorship
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:47 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, July 24,
2006
A Psychological Explanation for Censorship and Claims of "Media Bias"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:45 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Tuesday, June 27,
2006
China's Latest Media Censorship Target is a Disaster (Literally!)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:37 PM |
Free Speech
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It's a Taking, Damn It!
posted by James DeLong @ 10:07 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, June 26,
2006
Mandatory Data Retention: How Much is Appropriate?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:52 PM |
Free Speech
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Friday, June 23,
2006
Remarks at Conference on Social Networking & Child Protection
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Friday, June 16,
2006
An Indecency Regime for Video Games?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:42 PM |
Free Speech
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President Signs Indecency Bill
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:55 PM |
Free Speech
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Reflections on Brussels Summit on Future of Free Expression / Child Protection
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:49 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, June 8,
2006
Reflections on "Beyond Censorship" Summit
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:34 PM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, May 31,
2006
Is This Where America's Campaign Finance Laws Are Heading?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:01 AM |
Campaign Finance Law , Free Speech
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op-ed on MySpace bill ("DOPA")
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:01 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, May 24,
2006
Internet Filtering Reconsidered
posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:31 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, May 22,
2006
Hillary Clinton, Net Neutrality Regulation & the Great Leap of Faith
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:47 PM |
Free Speech , Net Neutrality
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Friday, May 19,
2006
WSJ Article on FCC Indecency Complaints
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:49 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, May 18,
2006
What Does Broadcast Censorship Accomplish?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 7:47 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, April 27,
2006
Cellular Content Controls
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:41 PM |
Free Speech , Wireless
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Tuesday, April 25,
2006
Do You Really "Save the Internet" By Regulating It?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:07 AM |
Cable , Communications , Free Speech , Net Neutrality , Wireline
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Wednesday, April 12,
2006
Parents Have Many Tools to Combat Objectionable Content
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:54 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, April 3,
2006
Protecting Children
posted by Patrick Ross @ 4:06 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, March 30,
2006
New FTC Survey Shows Video Game Enforcement Improving
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:07 PM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, March 29,
2006
Sen. Brownback Turns Up the Heat on the Video Game Industry
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:38 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, March 23,
2006
WB's Move Shows Why Government Content Controls Are Doomed
posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:02 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, March 20,
2006
The 6 Myths Driving the Push for Video Game Regulation
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:40 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, March 16,
2006
The FCC's Indecency Bomb: Why it Might Be the Beginning of the End of All Broadcast Content Regulation
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:34 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, February 28,
2006
Sen. Rockefeller's Cable Censorship Bill Could Be Considered in Senate
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:12 PM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, February 23,
2006
Thoughts on the Future of Content Controls (Both Public & Private)
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:31 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, February 13,
2006
More on New FCC A La Carte Report
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:37 PM |
A La Carte , Cable , Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, February 9,
2006
Initial Thoughts on the FCC's Revised A La Carte Report
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:33 PM |
A La Carte , Cable , Free Speech , Mass Media
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Monday, January 23,
2006
A Friendly Conversation about Corporate High-Tech Engagement with China
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:11 PM |
Free Speech , Internet Governance
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Friday, January 20,
2006
Do Parents Have the Tools to Control TV Content?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:22 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, January 17,
2006
Gross on Internet Governance
posted by Patrick Ross @ 8:34 AM |
Digital Europe 2006 , Free Speech , Internet , Internet Governance
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Friday, December 16,
2005
Family-Friendly Tiering as Censorship
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:40 AM |
Cable , Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, December 15,
2005
Internet Regulation Without Frontiers
posted by Patrick Ross @ 11:45 AM |
Economics , Free Speech , Mass Media
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Is Parental Responsibility Dead?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:54 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, December 13,
2005
A "Voluntary" Charade: The "Family-Friendly Tier" Case Study
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:57 PM |
Cable , Free Speech , Mass Media
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Friday, December 9,
2005
A La Carte as Censorship
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:01 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, December 8,
2005
CRS Report on Applying Indecency Regs to Cable
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:43 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, December 5,
2005
A La Carte: Moral Aspects of the Debate
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:10 PM |
Cable , Free Speech , Mass Media
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Friday, November 18,
2005
In Search of Appropriate Social Goals in Communications Regulation
posted by Kyle Dixon @ 1:12 AM |
Broadband , Cable , Capitol Hill , Communications , Free Speech , Innovation , Internet , Mass Media , The FCC , Universal Service , VoIP , Wireless , Wireline
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Wednesday, November 9,
2005
Questions about FCC Indecency Numbers
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:34 PM |
Free Speech , The FCC
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Friday, October 21,
2005
Sen. Coleman's Effort to Stop a "U.N. for the Internet"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:47 AM |
E-commerce , Free Speech , Internet Governance
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Thursday, October 13,
2005
More Signs of the Impending Death of Content Controls
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:54 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Wednesday, October 12,
2005
WSJ editorial: "The World Wide Web (of Bureaucrats)"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:11 AM |
E-commerce , Free Speech , Internet Governance
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Thursday, October 6,
2005
And the Oscar Goes to...
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:50 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Thursday, September 29,
2005
Regulation Without Frontiers
posted by Patrick Ross @ 2:20 PM |
Communications , Digital Europe , Free Speech , Internet , Mass Media
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Wednesday, August 31,
2005
The Coming FCC Push for Cable Censorship
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:42 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, August 25,
2005
Fighting Stupidity with Censorship
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:12 PM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, July 27,
2005
Falling Apologies at Wal-Mart
posted by Patrick Ross @ 3:30 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, July 26,
2005
Recruitment Spikes at the IRS
posted by Patrick Ross @ 11:53 AM |
Free Speech
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A Sin Tax for Online Porn?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 8:58 AM |
Free Speech
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Monday, July 25,
2005
Wal-Mart Says No to The First Amendment
posted by Patrick Ross @ 5:50 PM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, July 20,
2005
Are Parents Powerless to Self-Censor Media Content?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:37 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, July 14,
2005
It Takes a Village To Raise A Video Gamer: Hillary Clinton's Plan to Regulate Video Games
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:42 PM |
Free Speech
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Monday, June 20,
2005
Miami Herald Article on Impact of the PTC in Censorship Debate
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:57 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, June 7,
2005
Washington Post op-ed on Expanded Censorship Threat
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:43 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, May 12,
2005
More on the Potential for Cellphone Content Controls
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:30 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, May 11,
2005
Analysis of Latest Cable Censorship Bill (S. 946: "The Kid-Friendly TV Programming Act")
posted by Adam Thierer @ 2:45 PM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, May 10,
2005
Your Soapbox is My Soapbox! Thoughts on the Media Access Movement in General and the Media & Democracy Coalition's "Bill of Media Rights" in Particular
posted by Adam Thierer @ 3:25 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Monday, April 25,
2005
Will A Wireless Ratings Scheme Be Enough to Head Off Cellphone Censorship?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:44 AM |
Free Speech , Wireless
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Thursday, April 21,
2005
New PFF Analysis of S. 616, the "Indecent and Gratuitous and Excessively Violent Programming Control Act of 2005"
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:14 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, April 20,
2005
More on Cellphone TV Regulation
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:45 AM |
Free Speech , Mass Media , Wireless
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Friday, April 8,
2005
C-Span and Indecency
posted by Ray Gifford @ 11:18 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, April 5,
2005
What Counts As "Criminal" Speech?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:47 PM |
Free Speech
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If You Mandate It, They Will Come... Maybe
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:55 AM |
Free Speech
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Tuesday, March 22,
2005
Internet Censorship
posted by Patrick Ross @ 9:55 AM |
Free Speech
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Thursday, March 17,
2005
Red Lion R.I.P.: FCC Declares the Scarcity Doctrine Dead
posted by Adam Thierer @ 6:05 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media , Wireless
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Wednesday, March 16,
2005
More on Media Convergence and Censorship
posted by Adam Thierer @ 4:15 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Tuesday, March 15,
2005
Will 2005 Be the Year That Congress Censors Cable and Satellite TV?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 1:59 PM |
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Thursday, March 10,
2005
Is Cell Phone Censorship Around the Corner?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 9:05 AM |
Free Speech
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Wednesday, March 9,
2005
Hillary Clinton Wants a V-Chip in Your I-Pod
posted by Adam Thierer @ 11:18 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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The Saving Private Ryan Censorship "Precedent"?
posted by Adam Thierer @ 10:12 AM |
Free Speech
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Saturday, March 5,
2005
Introducing PFF's Center for Digital Media Freedom
posted by Adam Thierer @ 5:20 PM |
Free Speech , Mass Media
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Tuesday, November 23,
2004
Indecent horses with prostitutes, or is it vice-versa?
posted by Ray Gifford @ 10:59 PM |
Free Speech
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