Press release: “A new First Report from the First Amendment Center examines the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to regulate indecency on the air. The FCC’s Regulation of Indecency (115 pages, PDF), by Lili Levi, a law professor at the University of Miami School of Law, analyzes crucial cases involving broadcasts of speech or images deemed… Continue Reading
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New Australian Legislation Would Allow Police to Ban Internet Content
Press release: “Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today slammed a Bill introduced into the Senate which would give members of the Australian Federal Police powers to ban access to Internet content. The Communications Legislation Amendment (Crime or Terrorism Related Internet Content) Bill 2007 would, if enacted, give senior members of the Australian Federal Police powers to… Continue Reading
Hearing on Access to Information in the People's Republic of China
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on Access to Information in the People’s Republic of China, July 31, 2007. Read the Panelists Prepared Statements Read the FINAL Press Release Read the Federal Register Notice Read the FINAL Agenda Continue Reading
Senate Committee on Commerce Hearing: Protecting Children on the Internet
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing, Protecting Children on the Internet, July 24, 2007. Links to witness statements “As the Senate Commerce Committee debates how best to protect children on the Internet, lawmakers must take special care to avoid overly simple solutions that would do more harm than good. In its zeal to… Continue Reading
Pew Research Report on China's Online Population Explosion
Press release: “The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a new report on China’s internet user population. There are now an estimated 137 million internet users in China, second in number only to the United States, where estimates of the current internet population range from 165 million to 210 million. The growth rate… Continue Reading
Boucher Introduces Free Flow of Information Act
Press release: “The bill provides a privilege in federal court proceedings for reporters to refrain from revealing their confidential sources of information. The privilege is similar in nature to that currently offered by 32 states and the District of Columbia. The ability to assure confidentiality to people who provide information is essential to effective news… Continue Reading
ACLU v Gonzales COPA Decision
ACLU v Gonzales [originally ACLU v. Reno, then ACLU v. Ashcroft], Final Adjudication on the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, March 22, 2007 (84 pages, PDF) Alternate link to the PDF decision, ACLU v. Gonzales, 22 March 2007, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Final Order,… Continue Reading
CDT Analysis of Child Protection Bills Pending in Congress
“CDT has released an analysis of the legislative proposals now pending before Congress, February 15, 2007” – CDT Analysis of Child Protection Bills Pending in Congress (10 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
State Department Hosts First Conference on Global Internet Freedom
Press release: “The Global Internet Freedom Task Force (GIFT), which is jointly chaired by Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, and Josette Sheeran, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, will host its first conference on Global Internet Freedom on January 30, 2007 in Washington, D.C. This event is a follow-up… Continue Reading
AP Reports White House Tightens Publishing Rules for USGS Scientists
AP: “The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, who study everything from caribou mating to global warming, subjecting them to controls on research that might go against official policy. New rules require screening of all facts and interpretations by agency scientists. The rules apply to all scientific papers and… Continue Reading
EPA Redacting Library Website to Remove Public Access to Reports
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) press release: “defiance of Congressional requests to immediately halt closures of library collections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is purging records from its library websites, making them unavailable to both agency scientists and outside researchers, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). At the… Continue Reading
Internet Censorship Circumvention Tool Becomes Available This Week
The New York Times reported that the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab will launch a censorship circumvention solution called psiphon. According to the Citizen Lab, “psiphon is…a human rights software project…that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind… Continue Reading
