Twitter Abruptly Resigns From The “Free Speech Wing Of The Free Speech Party”
Happy belated #Jan25 from San Francisco: A new Twitter policy which goes into effect today allows the social network “to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country,” so that Twitter can further expand globally and “enter countries that have different ideas about the...Dr. Laura Exits The Radio Booth (But Not Without a Whinge)
Quothe soon-to-be-consigned-to-the-slagheap-of-history (or a prime time slot on Fox News) talk radio misanthrope Laura “Nigger Nigger Nigger” Schlessinger: “I want my 1st Amendment rights back, which I can’t have on radio without the threat of attack on my advertisers and...Supreme Court of Canada Unanimously Defrosts Libel Chill
The Globe & Mail: The media should not live in constant fear of facing a libel suit every time a provocative commentary is published or broadcast, the Supreme Court of Canada said yesterday in a major ruling won by controversial Vancouver radio broadcaster Rafe Mair. In a 9-0 decision that modernizes...Afghanistan Sentences Journalist to Death
Posted by Macswain on Jan 23, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
This is not what we are fighting and paying for. The AP reports: An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said. Hopefully the blogosphere and the media...