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Let global online freedom ring?

July 5, 2006 Attorney Eric J. Sinrod cautions about the effect of a bill that ostensibly seeks to foster global online freedom. TAGS: freedom, bill, censorship, Internet search engine, U.S., search engine, policy, government, idea

New draft of GPL 3

July 27, 2006 The Free Software Foundation has released a new draft of the controversial version 3 of the General Public License. TAGS: GPL, draft, Free Software Foundation, GPL 3, freedom, author, copy, work

The erosion of anonymous Internet speech

January 25, 2006 Attorney Eric Sinrod warns against the unintended consequences of a new law designed to prevent telephone harassment. TAGS: identity, speech, harassment, telecommunications, law, First Amendment, freedom, person, Internet Service Provider

The freedom to disallow speech in cyberspace

March 7, 2007 Attorney Eric Sinrod says tech industry escaped a close call that might have imposed shackles on search engines and Internet service providers. TAGS: plaintiff, First Amendment, defendant, cyberspace, speech, freedom, Internet search engine, federal judge, search engine, identity, argument, Google Inc., decision, Internet Service Provider, service provider, Internet service

The wrong way to spread broadband

May 4, 2006 Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren warns that corporate favoritism could put long-held Internet freedoms at risk. TAGS: Net Neutrality, antitrust, freedom, broadband, eBay Inc., connection, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Antispam group rejects e-mail payment plan

February 7, 2006 Spamhaus says the e-mail charges planned by Yahoo and AOL will erode our freedom to communicate. TAGS: anti-spam, Spamhaus, America Online Inc., freedom, Yahoo! Inc., spam, Time Warner Inc., e-mail, payment, agency

Exiled journalists circumvent censors by text messaging

February 17, 2007 Broadcasters forced out of Zimbabwe find that their shortwave programs are blocked but stories sent via text message get through. TAGS: censor, Zimbabwe, journalist, text messaging, freedom, Paris, radio, conference, e-mail

Opening up an open-source roadblock

February 21, 2007 If the FSF succeeds in blocking a landmark deal, the biggest losers will be software consumers, policy analyst James DeLong says. TAGS: Free Software Foundation, open-source community, open source, freedom, open-source software, intellectual property, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.

FSF rebuts anti-GPL 3 claims

September 27, 2006 Free Software Foundation takes on prominent Linux programmers' complaints against new features. TAGS: GPL 3, GPL, Linux programmer, foundation, Free Software Foundation, Linux kernel, hardware maker, freedom, programmer, Linux

The bust-up in Tunisia

November 19, 2005 Internet watchdog Sean O'Siochru found a climate of repression as the world gathered to debate Net liberties. TAGS: summit, freedom, U.N., president

GPL 3.0: A bonfire of the vanities?

March 9, 2006 Jonathan Zuck says GPL advocates are adopting a religious stance on software development, rather than a practical one. TAGS: Richard Stallman, GPL, freedom, software development, Red Hat Inc., open source, Linux

Don't blow it, Congress

February 6, 2006 Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn says the outcome of upcoming telecom legislation will dramatically affect the Internet landscape. TAGS: telephone company, telephone network, regulation, broadband, telecommunications, freedom, DSL

Save Internet freedom--from regulation

December 12, 2007 Stanford Law School's Larry Downes warns that the information superhighway to hell is surely paved with good intentions. TAGS: Net Neutrality, railroad, information superhighway, regulation, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, legislation, Mississippi, freedom, law

Freedom of information? Uncle Sam, get it right!

March 28, 2007 Attorney Eric Sinrod says 10 years after Congress enacted E-FOIA regulations, government agencies are coming up woefully short. TAGS: agency, exemption, audit, guidance, request, government, freedom, law, compliance, record

Debating high tech's China challenge

January 23, 2006 The PFF's Adam Thierer squares off with the Cato Institute's Jim Harper over how tech companies should engage China. TAGS: engagement, China, freedom, government, U.S., Google Inc.

Harvard student finds lawyer to defend Apple suit

January 19, 2005 The 19-year-old publisher of Mac rumor site Think Secret says he has found a lawyer to "help defend these crucial freedoms." TAGS: trade secret, First Amendment, lawyer, Apple Computer, suit, freedom, student, article, Apple Macintosh

GPL getting tougher on patent deals

March 28, 2007 Version 3 to block next Microsoft-Novell handshake? Latest draft aims to "prevent such deals from making a mockery of free software." TAGS: GPL 3, GPL, Free Software Foundation, draft, Novell Inc., Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel, patent, freedom, open source, open-source software, Linux, digital-rights management, agreement, Microsoft Corp.

U.S. protests Net summit crackdown

November 18, 2005 Bush administration protests Tunisia's crackdown on physical meetings and Web sites at a U.N. summit. Photo: Annan defends U.N. summit TAGS: summit, crackdown, U.N., regime, police, freedom, U.S.
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