A new leak of the Electronic Commerce chapter [PDF] of the Trade in Services Agreement from the November 2016 negotiating round has exposed a brand new U.S. government proposal on Internet intermediary safe harbors. The proposal, which the European Union is shown as… Read More ›
Archive for January 2017
Stupid Patent of the Month: A Lyrics Website With User Interaction
Song lyrics are some of the most searched-for topics on the Internet. This has lead to fierce competition among lyrics sites. If you scroll to the bottom of one of these websites, you’ll see the claim: “Song discussions is protected… Read More ›
Hearing Thursday: American Fights to Continue Case Against Ethiopian Spyware
Foreign Governments Must Be Held Accountable for Wiretapping Americans in the U.S. Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, February 2, at 9:30 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the law firms of Jones Day and Robins Kaplan will urge an… Read More ›
Trita Parsi: If Ban is How Trump Approaches Iran, We Fear Nuclear Deal Won't Withstand Tensions
On Friday, Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning all refugees from entering the country, and barring access for 90 days to nationals from seven majority-Muslim nations. The draconian measure instantly cut off access to the U.S. to 218… Read More ›
Sarsour v. Trump: Palestinian-American Activist Sues the President to Overturn Muslim Ban
We turn now to Sarsour v. Trump—a sweeping lawsuit the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed Monday challenging Trump’s executive order temporarily banning all refugees from entering the United States and banning entry into the U.S. to all 218 million citizens… Read More ›
Former Watergate Prosecutor: We Need Officials Who Will Stand Up to Trump
More than 100 employees of the State Department have signed on to drafts of a dissent memo that condemns Trump’s executive order. One draft of the memo reads, “This ban stands in opposition to the core American and constitutional values… Read More ›
Watergate Veterans: Just Like Nixon, Donald Trump Appears to Think He is Above the Law
On Monday night, after Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates over her refusal to defend Trump’s Muslim ban, many commentators compared the incident to the infamous Saturday Night Massacre in 1973, when then-Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy… Read More ›
The Attorney General Defied Trump's Muslim Ban. He Did One Thing He Knows How to Do: He Fired Her
President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday night, just hours after she announced the Justice Department would not defend Trump’s executive order temporarily banning all refugees, as well as citizens, from seven Muslim-majority nations. Yates had… Read More ›
Headlines for January 31, 2017
Trump Fires Acting Attorney General After She Defies Muslim Ban Order Hundreds of State Department Officials Sign Memo Condemning Muslim Ban Sarsour v. Trump: Sweeping Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Muslim Ban 200 Jewish Studies Scholars Denounce Muslim Ban, Citing U.S. Anti-Refugee… Read More ›
Hundreds of Texas Muslim Leaders Receive Alarming Survey Investigating Their Views on Islam
In Texas, hundreds of Muslim leaders received letters this month ordering them to complete a survey stating their views on Islamic extremism. The inflammatory three-question survey asks leaders to state whether they believe the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization,… Read More ›