US appeals court reinstates wiretap abuse lawsuit
NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland © AFP/File Saul Loeb AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – An appeals court Monday reinstated a lawsuit challenging a law giving…
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White House Wants It To Be A Felony To Stream Infringing Materials
Wikimedia Commons Image David Makarewicz, Contributing Writer Activist Post One aspect of the White Paper that has grabbed headlines is the Obama Administration’s recommendation that…
New Proposal to Wiretap Suspected Infringers Raises Privacy Concerns
This is Part II of a series of articles analyzing specific aspects of the Obama Administration’s White Paper (available for download here), recommending legislative changes…
Obama Proposes Harsh New Copyright Laws for Internet
Do Obama’s Proposed New Copyright Laws Go Too Far? (Part I) Obama Administration IP Czar Victoria Espinel David Makarewicz, Contributing Writer Activist Post On Tuesday,…
Can The Law Treat A Blogger Differently Than A Print Journalist?
Screenshot of the Cutler Files David Makarewicz, Contributing Writer Activist Post The last few weeks have seen websites and blogs forced to fight back against…
Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest
Aaron Tobey/Government Image David Kravets Wired A 21-year-old Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to…
Media Bloggers Association Stands Up To Copyright Troll Righthaven
It is unfortunate that Righthaven and the companies it “buys” the copyrighted property from are willing to financially wreck a person, often for mere carelessness…
Big Ag Lobbies to Make it Illegal to Secretly Film Animal Abuse
Activist Post Big Agribusiness is fed up with pesky animal rights activists who expose abuses of farm animals on film. According to the Associated Press,…
Jury Says Blogger Has To Pay For His Words Even Though He Did Not Lie
Blogger Johnny Northside David Makarewicz, Contributing Writer Activist Post On Friday, a Minnesota jury found that a blogger must pay $60,000 in damages because of…
How the So-Called Guardians of Free Speech Are Silencing the Messenger
WikiLeaks Screenshot/AFP image John Pilger Truthout As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is…
Maine town becomes first to declare food sovereignty
Ethan A. Huff Natural News The town of Sedgwick, Maine, currently leads the pack as far as food sovereignty is concerned. Local residents recently voted…
Twitter ordered to give WikiLeaks data to US
© AFP Kimihiro Hoshino AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US judge on Friday ordered Twitter to hand over data of three users in contact with…
5 Ways DHS Violates the Constitution with Website Domain Seizures
David Makarewicz, Contributing Writer Activist Post Last week, Bryan McCarthy, the 32 year old operator of ChannelSurfing.net, was arrested on charges of criminal copyright infringement….