People still don't get it. Last week a Michigan State Law Professor published an article claiming that videogames (especially violent ones) shouldn't be protected by the First Amendment. LawMeme takes apart the argument here.
LawMeme has excellent legal analysis of how the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA - part of the Department of Defense) has ignored existing regulations regarding censorship of commercial satellite imagery. Supposedly, such censorship must be decided at the secretarial level - between the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense and State, but the NIMA just went ahead and did it on its own. So even if we have laws, they are ignored.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/002154. html
State of Play Blog and New IP Rules for Second Life
Unfortunately, Swarthmore is now taking down student websites that link to Why War? http://importance.typepad.com/the_importance_of/20 03/10/swarthmore_crac.html
Actually, upon reflection, I don't think they will. My analysis can be found on LawMeme, here.
People still don't get it. Last week a Michigan State Law Professor published an article claiming that videogames (especially violent ones) shouldn't be protected by the First Amendment. LawMeme takes apart the argument here.
Previous LawMeme Coverage here, including a nasty reply from the SearchKing himself.
LawMeme points out a glaring loophole in the bill.
Seth Finkelstein points out that some of the sites blocked were formerly racist sites, but the domain owner has changed. This is likely why the study is unclear why the sites are currently blocked. No one ever seems to update blacklists (Reason note for "Localized Google search result exclusions" report). He has also uncovered more about how Google is blocking sites (How-it-works note for "Localized Google search result exclusions" report).
LawMeme is dissecting the letter and note line by line.
Read this for some good info.
LawMeme has an entire post on this in pirate lingo - Shiver Me Timbers! Pirates Take to the High Seas
LawMeme has a quick-n-dirty analysis here. Conclusion: The bill has good points and bad points, but is a good idea in order to balance out the debate.
Yale's LawMeme actually has concrete suggestions for archive.org Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for Scientology
LawMeme has excellent legal analysis of how the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA - part of the Department of Defense) has ignored existing regulations regarding censorship of commercial satellite imagery. Supposedly, such censorship must be decided at the secretarial level - between the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense and State, but the NIMA just went ahead and did it on its own. So even if we have laws, they are ignored.