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It is ridiculously easy to create an online forum. Even just a few years ago, you had to have a fairly high level of technical savvy to put together such a thing - maybe some php or other coding skills, certainly a solid grip on html at the very lea... Full story

I am excited to welcome Marie-Andrée Weiss as a guest blogger! Marie-Andrée Weiss is a solo attorney admitted in New York, and her admission is pending in France. Her practice focuses on intellectual property, privacy, and social media law. She f... Full story

Censorship in China is nothing new.  Heck, it's practically to be expected these days. Witness last week's censoring of the Shanghai stock exchange's 64.89 point drop on June 4.  See, that number is already on the Great Firewall of China's blacklist... Full story

Britain's effort to reform its defamation laws and shed London's title of "libel capital of the world" has been chugging along for several years, but now it looks like it's in sight of the last stop: The government unveiled its proposed new ... Full story

What happens when the First Amendment collides with military decorum and respect for chain of command?   It looks like we'll get to find out as the matter of Sgt. Gary Stein, the Marine who on a Tea Party Facebook page slammed President Obama and ... Full story

We are pleased to announce the expansion of the CMLP Legal Guide to cover the state of Arizona! You may have noticed our Arizona section growing over the past several months.  Our legal guide now includes several sections on Arizona defamation law, i... Full story

Venkat Balasubramani and Eric Goldman, over on Eric's blog, have highlighted a rather interesting if fundamentally flawed decision from the Eastern District of Virginia.  The case is Bland v. Roberts, and involves six plaintiffs who were civilian ... Full story

Connecticut, like most states these days it seems, has been having a problem with cops interfering with people photographing or filming them. Members of the Connecticut legislature are concerned about citizens being harassed for filming cops, and are ... Full story

I am excited to welcome Bryce Newell as a guest blogger! Bryce Newell is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington's Information School and a Graduate Fellow of the Comparative Law & Society Studies (CLASS) Center. He is also a... Full story

Thanks to its ongoing war against the drug cartels, Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world for a journalist to work.  Reporters are routinely threatened, attacked, and killed if they report on crime.  Local law enforcement is oft... Full story