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Out of the Frying Pan and into the Mildly Uncomfortable Sauna: The Not-So-Bad-But-Still-Unconstitutional Social Networking Ban

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The New Intellectual Arms Trade: Amazon and B&N as Literary God-Emperors

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When we were kids, we couldn’t wait for the future to hurry up and get here. Flying cars, pills for food, conveyor belts, the works.

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The AP of Oz: Associated Press Prohibits Reporters from Peeking Behind its False DRM Curtain

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Last Friday, the Associated Press briefly became the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. It announced, in a booming press release, an “initiative to protect news content from unauthorized use online.” To accomplish this feat, the AP will use an informational “wrapper” embedded in its product.

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Brandjacking on Social Networks: Twitter, Malicious Ghost Writing, and Corporate Sabotage

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It seems all I can write about these days is digital doppelgangers. I’ve written about employers engaged in Facebook hijacking and MySpace lurking. Today, a story of brandjacking through Twitter sabotage rounds out the cyber-possession trilogy.

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Complaints at Teatime! The Shaw-Skinner Lawsuit and the Futility of Legal Duels

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“Pistols at Dawn!” has become “Subpoenas at Noon!” or “Complaints at Teatime!” Today’s legal duelists, armed with dubious lawsuits charging defamation, are B.F. Shaw Printing, the parent company of the Northwest Herald, and Cal Skinner, a blogger.

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Employee Privacy and Social Networks: The Case for a New Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

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“Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.” – Benjamin Franklin

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Fool's Gold - Athletes, Sports Associations, and Citizen Speech

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The Iranian government has been busy in its efforts to smother free expression.  The regime has raided school meetings, newsrooms, political offices, blocked social networks, and

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The Facebook Snatchers: Could your Employer Hijack your Account?

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Let's assume you are employed, use Facebook, have a decent grasp of privacy settings, and want to occassionally express your opinion. Welcome to Facebook Club.

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Liberte, Egalite, Technologie: The French Resistance and the Anti-Piracy Campaign

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The music and motion picture industries suffered a setback in their global anti-piracy carpet-bombing campaign on June 10, when the French Conseil Constitutionnel struck down the internet-banning portions of the HADOPI law.

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Crash Diet: Text-Only Browsers as Tonic for Iranian Internet Throttling

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For years, the Iranian government has had to deal with the pesky problem of citizens trying to use the Internet to access information from the outside world. The powers that be usually go about solving this problem in a hamfisted way, banning huge swaths of the internet or shutting down access entirely.

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Bring Me his Head and Hands: Unconstitutional Internet Proscription

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Dear friends, let’s begin with a little story about the death of liberty at Rome. When Mark Antony had the chance, he proscribed (read: murdered) the orator Cicero.

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Dull: Ockham's Razor in the age of Twitter

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The raging villagers of the twitterverse were busy in April. The cruelest month gave witness to #savejon and #amazonfail, campaigns against corporate bullying and intolerance, respectively.  However, both movements likely put the black hat on the wrong party.  These cybermaulings should frighten us all and spur us to let a little Ockham into our hearts.

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