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Free Post julian assange The Assange Myths Nice post on the New Statesman from David Allen Green, attempting to bring legal facts to the many consipracy-ish theories around the Julian Assange situation.
Free Post facebook Good question of the day Glyn asks the question on pretty much everybody’s mind today in our little social media journalism bubble: Just how do the authorities impose injunctions on users of social media if that site isn’t within the territorial jurisdiction of that authority? Anyone got
Free Post gagging orders Super Injunction Linkage Not really had much to say on this, beyond what I said back when it was all about Trafigura. But here are some interesting links that have crossed my radar: Charlie Beckett gives us a quick take on the key issues, as he sees
Free Post apple RSA: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires Liveblogged notes from a talk by Tim Wu about the book The Rise and Fall or Information Empires, given at the RSA, London
Free Post blogging Researching Media Law and Online Publishers Judith Townend, she who has given up life at journalism.co.uk for PhDing, is running a survey around media law and online publishers/bloggers. Help academia flourish by filling it out, if you’d be so kind…
Free Post employers Could Your Employer Claim Your Facebook? David Lacey, one of our many bloggers, was in sunny Sutton this afternoon, being treated to lunch by the Computer Weekly team. I was invited along and, not being one to refuse a free Italian meal, accepted. Now, I must confess that I don’
Free Post bloggers Mindsets Beat Codes of Conduct So, Code of Conduct, hmm? Setting boundaries on our online debates? Interesting idea. And one I’m late to, I know. I’ve been letting my thoughts on the matter stew slowly in my brain over the last week. And I keep coming back
Free Post blogging Blogger gets Death Threats This is profoundly disturbing: Death Threats in the Blogosphere In her latest post, Kathy Sierra reports that she has been receiving increasingly disturbing threats (death threats, and of sexual nature), to the point that she has cancelled her appearance at ETech and has locked
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Free Post law The Sound of the Underground …is the sound of racial abuse and fist on flesh…? Far from proven yet, but probably not a good thing for the careers of the made-on-TV band. At least, I hope it isn’t. If our society has fallen to the point where allegations
Free Post clothes Man wins sex discrimination case So, the courts have ruled that forcing a man to wear a suit and tie while the women wear t-shirts and football tops is sex discrimination. Quite right, too. What gets me is that everyone seems to be reacting as if he’s trying
