One of the United States government’s priorities in Internet policy is encapsulated by a term that’s recently been making the rounds; the “free flow of information.” It appears almost every time U.S. officials describe how they intend to protect the… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Free Speech’
Malaysian Internet Censorship is Going from Bad to Worse
Following our previous articles about increasing political censorship of the Internet in Malaysia, things have quickly gone from bad to worse. In fact since July 2015, the Malaysian government has blocked at least ten websites, including online news portals and… Read More ›
California Prisons Are Deleting Records of Social Media Censorship
Facebook Rightfully Questions Claims That California Inmates Are Banned from Having a Social Media Presence Up until last spring, Facebook had maintained a semi-secret channel for corrections facilities to file “Inmate Takedown” requests. A prison official could fill out a… Read More ›
Military Prison Blocks Chelsea Manning from Reading EFF Blog Posts
EFF was dismayed to learn last week that the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks (USDB) at Fort Leavenworth has refused to provide inmate Chelsea Manning with printouts of EFF blog posts and other materials related to prisoner censorship. Worse yet, it appears… Read More ›
EFF Defends Live Action Role Players’ Right to Criticize Patent Suit
The First Amendment guarantees that even patent owners are subject to the slings and arrows of public criticism. Today EFF has submitted a motion and amicus brief asking the court to reject a patent owner’s attempt to silence criticism of… Read More ›
Not Mormon®, But Still Mormon
Who is a Mormon? This is a fundamental question of self-identity, religion, and even Wikipedia. One would think, however, that that answer would not be found in trademark law. Intellectual Reserve, Inc. (IRI), which owns and manages the trademarks of… Read More ›
Maryland Bill Would Protect Consumers’ Free Speech from Bad Contracts (H.B. 131)
Should a company be allowed to use its own contractual fine print to take away its customers’ free speech? What fundamental rights should not be waivable? We’ve written in the past about companies putting clauses in their form contracts that… Read More ›
The FCC Should Ensure Digital Rights for Prisoners and Their Families
Through the lens of someone with no connection to the prison sector, corrections systems in the United States seem to be improving how inmates communicate with the outside world through new communications technologies, such as inmate email, video visitation, and… Read More ›
Companies Should Resist Government Pressure and Stand Up for Free Speech
EFF has been steadfast in its criticism of officials like FBI Director James Comey, who have implored tech companies to provide a backdoor to their customers’ encrypted communications. Now it appears as though the White House would like a backdoor… Read More ›
Your Apps, Please? China Shows how Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship
Xinjiang, home of the China’s muslim Uighur minority, has long been the world’s laboratory for Internet repression. Faced with widespread local unrest, and online debate, China has done everything it can to enforce its vision of the Net in the… Read More ›