Salon’s Glenn Greenwald pointed out an interesting coincidence today. He writes:
The ACLU has long had as its motto for its National Security Project: “Keep America Safe and Free.” Here is their new logo:
Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol just created a new organization…Its name is Keep America Safe and this is its logo:
It’s as though they took the [...]
Peterson v. Moldofsky, No. 07-2603, 2009 WL 3126229 (D.Kan. September 29, 2009)
Defendant took pictures of his ex-girlfriend “engaged in various sex acts with two other people.” Later he emailed some of the photos to his ex-girlfriend’s mother, ex-husband, ex-in laws, boss and co-workers.
The ex-girlfriend sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of [...]
The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson points out a fatal flaw in the administration’s justification for continued detentions at Guantánamo:
The difficulty in releasing him was that he might be mad at us for holding him unjustly? How is that solved by continuing to hold him unjustly? Wouldn’t he just get madder? Sometimes our government acts like [...]
Former President Jimmy Carter recently stated that he respects but disagrees with President Obama’s decision to block the release of photographs that depict U.S. use of torture and other harsh interrogation methods under the Bush administration. The ACLU is with President Carter when he talks about the hope to be “much more open about the [...]
One of the best things about the broadband portion of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act is that it recognizes the importance of community media for expanding the Internet. The concern now is that if you focus too much on the medium itself, you miss that what really brings people online is the sense of [...]
If the history of Internet policy were a movie, it would feature the public tied to the tracks before an onrushing train of corporate lobbyists.
The villain, however, is not just the powerful phone and cable companies these lobbyists represent, but the politicians who tightened the knots and then stood smugly by as our interests [...]
A lot of big companies have gotten big headaches dealing with the implications of a wired world. Instead of embracing change and developing new business plans to win profits from online users, many see the net as the enemy or something that must be controlled.
Guest post by Phillip Dampier of StoptheCap.com
When Netizens out-think corporate [...]
Last night, the New York State Assembly passed legislation that would permit same-sex marriages by a vote of 89 to 52. The bill now heads to the Senate, where Majority Leader Malcolm Smith has said he won’t schedule a vote until the legislation has enough support to insure passage. Governor Patterson has already [...]
Ask an Internet entrepreneur about the current state of our country’s broadband Internet, and you’ll probably get an animated response about the battle between content producers and service providers; a Sparta-esque fight led by the embattled masses rising up against discriminatory practices that threaten the freedom of the Internet. It’s practically Armageddon.
Ask anyone under the [...]