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Freedom of speech v the will to protect children
News An injunction filed by The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a group of online publishers claimed the bill infringed freedom of speech, a view upheld by US District Court Judge Lowell Reed Jr at the beginning of February.
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
Cybersquatting OK for 'freedom of speech' sites
News These "freedom of speech" domain names — where a person has registered a company's name as a domain name to voice negative opinions about that company — have caused controversy because the company's branding, and therefore intellectual property...
[December 6, 2007, 9:46]
Google wins porn probe fight
Talkback It is sad that for many people "Freedom of Speech" has gained more value than freedom. I think that we need to realize that some things have more value than freedom of speech like the happiness of our children.
[March 21, 2006, 22:06]
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
Talkback Is that protected by the right to freedom of speech, or not? And the people her words have hurt are entitled to the same freedom of speech, no? Smithy, you troll, posing as an expert is fraud. Laura is posing as an expert.
[April 8, 2005, 2:35]
UK police chief: Shut down 'abhorrent' Web sites
Talkback Try grabbing our First Amendment that deals with freedom of speech and expression instead. Cannibals are a hell of a lot less dangerous to the freedom of a nation than police chiefs in a land where there are no permanent guarantees of freedom of...
[February 26, 2004, 1:48]
Reding: Help tech firms not help repressive regimes
Blog I believe that every one of these opportunities must be used by the European Commission and by the EU Presidency to promote freedom of speech and fight against censorship. In addition, we must ensure that nothing in the agreements we negotiate with...
[February 5, 2009, 16:00]
Online booksellers defend right to sell banned books
News This is about freedom of speech in the US," she says. Freedom of speech is enshrined in the US Constitution under the First Amendment. In the UK however, there is no specific Freedom of Speech Act and indeed the legal framework explicity allows for...
[August 10, 1999, 13:51]
Amnesty: ISPs must protect free speech
News So far, more than 60,000 people have signed the site's pledge to protect freedom of speech on the internet. Speaking at the annual awards dinner held last week by the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA), Amnesty's campaigns director, Tim...
[February 19, 2007, 12:15]
Lycos should send its zombie army home
Talkback They do NOT have any 'freedom of speech', since what they are 'saying' harms EVERYONE it comes in contact with. They are infringing on MY right to freedom of speech by making it harder for me to maintain an email account.
[December 7, 2004, 18:11]
Exclusive: Demon loses court battle
News Initially the ISP claimed to fight the case on behalf of the industry, saying it threatened "the entire ethos of freedom of speech on the Internet". At the height of the publicity surrounding the case, more than 10,000 messages were posted to...
[March 30, 2000, 9:29]
French seek mandatory registration for Net publishing
News Others have damned the Bill as a serious infringement to online freedom of speech and privacy that could spread across Europe. It comes from a government's long standing fear of freedom of speech. Web users in France who want to publish online will...
[May 25, 2000, 16:50]
UN attacks tech giants over China co-operation
News In the US, any such ban would have to comply with the First Amendment's protections of freedom of speech. It's hardly clear how international rules governing freedom of speech would work: would Cisco be barred from selling routers that can block...
[November 1, 2006, 9:42]
A Year Ago: Online booksellers defend right to sell banned books
News This is about freedom of speech in the US," she says. Freedom of speech is enshrined in the US Constitution under the First Amendment. In the UK however, there is no specific Freedom of Speech Act and indeed the legal framework explicity allows for...
[August 11, 2000, 7:07]
Internet free speech threatened by data protection laws
News Anonymity favours free speech and the Internet provides a forum for informed discussion," says Yaman Akdenis, director of British Internet freedom watchdog Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties. Supporters of Internet freedom, however, believe this may...
[June 13, 2000, 17:05]
Australian site told to remove racial content
News In public discourse there is a need to balance rights and responsibilities, for example, balancing the right to freedom of speech and political communication with the right to freedom from racial vilification.
[October 10, 2000, 9:14]
Hyperlinks remain legal after Scientology defeat
News In a second lawsuit decided in 1999, the Amsterdam courts again ruled in favour of the ISP, citing the right to freedom of speech. I think this establishes an important freedom of speech precedence for the Internet and ISPs in particular," said...
[September 9, 2003, 9:05]
Oxford University targeted by MPAA
News It is a breach of freedom of expression and freedom of speech," he says. While we support freedom of speech," reads the statement. Oxford University has been forced to take a student's Web page offline following threats of legal action by the...
[May 19, 2000, 16:03]
Jane Wakefield: The Net takes on the establishment
News At first, Demon entered the fray with all guns blazing, promising to act on behalf of all ISPs and uphold Internet freedom of speech. But, in Demon's defence, it was acting out of an albeit misguided attempt to safeguard freedom of speech on the...
[April 3, 2000, 9:02]
White House slammed over Net porn bill
News Efforts by Coats and Oxley followed the Supreme Court's decision last year to throw out Congress's first anti-Internet porn law, the Communications Decency Act, as a violation of freedom of speech rights.
[October 16, 1998, 7:02]
Misleading URLs may become illegal
News The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought. Last year, the US Supreme Court slapped down Congress' first attempt to ban nude images of computer...
[March 27, 2003, 10:12]
