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Paving Hell: ACTA Encourages Oppression from Friend and Foe Alike

The drafting of the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) isn’t going so well.

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Using the Internet During Trial: What About Judges?

Over the past year, we've watched the courts struggle with Internet and social media use involving a variety of actors.

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Brazil Fines Google Over Dirty Jokes on Orkut; Brazilian Lawyers Weigh In

Techdirt first drew our attention to Google's recent legal

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Keeping Online Speech Outside the Schoolhouse Gate

A freshman at Oak Grove High School in Missouri used Facebook last month to vent about another student: "Wow, [expletive] alert," wrote Megan Wisemore.

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The Revolution Will Be Tweeted, Hopes the U.S.

Anyone who followed the Green Movement protests in Iran is well aware of the importance of social media to the protesters. Without Twitter, photo sharing, and other key information-sharing technologies, it's hard to believe that the protests would ever have materialized, let alone in such numbers that the Iranian government couldn't discretely crush them. (By the way, if you're interested in seeing the social media at work in the protests, I'd highly recommend checking out Andrew Sullivan's blog The Daily Dis

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The Persian Version: Why Support for ACTA Undermines U.S. Promotion of Internet Freedom

"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it . . ." –Definition of Doublethink from 1984, George Orwell

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Trial Judges Impose Penalties for Social Media in the Courtroom

As state and federal courts continue to struggle with the use of social media in co

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Philly, Don't Blame Facebook for Missing the Snowball Fight Invite

I understand you're upset, Philadelphia. Plans for a "flash mob" snowball fight last week got out of control. Scores of teenagers stormed a local mall and nearby streets

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Federal Courts to Jurors on Social Media: Don't Do It

Following the approach taken by several state courts, in late January the U.S.

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Olympic Athletes Can Tweet to Their Hearts' Content

Rejoice, all ye Olympian fans, the International Olympic Committee ("IOC") has said that its athletes can use Twitter!

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Paving Hell: ACTA Encourages Oppression from Friend and Foe Alike

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Using the Internet During Trial: What About Judges?

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Brazil Fines Google Over Dirty Jokes on Orkut; Brazilian Lawyers Weigh In

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Keeping Online Speech Outside the Schoolhouse Gate

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The Revolution Will Be Tweeted, Hopes the U.S.

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The Persian Version: Why Support for ACTA Undermines U.S. Promotion of Internet Freedom

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Trial Judges Impose Penalties for Social Media in the Courtroom

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Philly, Don't Blame Facebook for Missing the Snowball Fight Invite

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Federal Courts to Jurors on Social Media: Don't Do It

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Olympic Athletes Can Tweet to Their Hearts' Content

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