Posted in Freedom of Speech on Feb 24th, 2008
The campus gossip website JuicyCampus.com is attracting some negative attention from people who have been offended by the site’s racy content.
JuicyCampus, which has been banned on several college campuses, is a message board that enables users to anonymously post malicious comments about other students – one enlightening post asks, “What sorority houses do the […]
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Posted in Freedom of Speech on Feb 24th, 2008
WikiLeaks, a website devoted to publishing leaked government and corporate documents, is challenging a U.S. District Court decision upholding the right of site’s hosting company to shut the site down.
The site recently released paperwork allegedly implicating the Cayman Islands branch of a Swiss bank, Julius Baer Bank and Trust, in a conspiracy to conceal […]
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Posted in Freedom of Speech on Feb 9th, 2008
Anyone who has spent time on an Internet message board has met one: That irritating guy who spouts defamatory nonsense on every subject from partisan politics to racist propaganda—a “troll,” as he is commonly known—is a staple of online discourse.
He may be obnoxious, but now his right to play virtual tough-guy is legally protected. A […]
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