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Jailhouse poke
A woman in Tennessee has been jailed for infringing a “protection” order after she ‘poked’ someone on Fa$ebook, the advertising site. Shannon D. Jackson (right), 36, “used the ‘poke’ option on Facebook to contact another Hendersonville woman she had been ordered to stay away from,” says the Tennessean , going on: “That violated the terms of an order of protection which stipulates “no telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with the petitioner,” according to police.
Continue reading »Accused Palin Hacker Says Stolen E-Mails Were Public Record
A surprise legal maneuver by the defense in the Sarah Palin hacking case could undermine key charges carrying the stiffest potential penalties. A lawyer for the Tennessee college student charged with hacking into the Alaska governor’s Yahoo e-mail account last year says his client couldn’t have violated Palin’s privacy because a judge had already declared her e-mails a matter of public record. “He’s not suggesting that e-mail can’t be private,” says Mark Rasch, a former Justice Department cybercrime prosecutor.
Continue reading »Filtering gay content …
In April, “A school librarian and two Tennessee high school students have told the American Civil Liberties Union their school district has, ‘ blocked access to online information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues’,” p2pnet quoted the School Library Journal as saying, going on: “As many as 107 Tennessee public school districts could be illegally preventing students from accessing online information about LGBT issues by activating the Internet filtering category designated ‘LGBT’,” says a letter from the ACLU to school officials at Knox County Schools, Metro Nashville Public Schools, and the Tennessee Schools Cooperative, according to the story. “As a result of using the Educational Networks of America (ENA) filtering software students using school computers cannot view political and educational information about LGBT issues and well-known nationals organizations such as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and the Human Rights Campaign,” it says. Now, in a Reader’s Write , “If you would like the perspective of a developer of a filtering product, who if given the chance to do it over again, here goes,” says Filter Developer, continuing »»» Having an intimate knowledge of the Internet, I recognize that there is exponentially more harmful content than educationally beneficial content available on the Internet.
Continue reading »Dutch Usenet group sues BREIN
FTD, the largest Usenet community in The Netherlands, is suing Hollywood / Big Music factotum BREIN. BREIN, the “Protection Rights Entertainment Industry Netherlands,” bills itself as the “central contact for government, law enforcement, trade and media in the Netherlands with respect to all issues concerning the unauthorised copying and distribution of entertainment products both offline and online,” also pointing out BREIN is the Dutch word for ‘brain’. That would, of course, be as in brain-dead.
Continue reading »‘Email Jacqui Smith’ online protest
David Lammy, the UK minister responsible for intellectual property, “ruled out a ‘three strikes’ law denying internet access to illegal file sharers,” p2pnet reported recently, quoting The Observer via Out-Law.com. “Cutting off users was not ‘the right road’ for UK law makers,” Lammy stated. But, that doesn’t mean Britain has now decided to, “abandon efforts to work on behalf of vested corporate movie and music industry interests, the story said, continuing »»» “Lammy told The Observer that there will be anti-piracy legislation to back up the work of the rights agency, but that the laws must not be too specific or exhaustive,” says the story.
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