Privacy Digest

News that can impact your privacy.
Login/Register
What is OpenID?
  • Log in using OpenID
  • Cancel OpenID login
  • Create new account
  • Request new password
Home Blogs MacRonin's blog
    • FAQ
    • Wishlists
    • Contact
    • Categories/RSS

Bookmark Us

Bookmark Privacy Digest 
Bookmark This Page 

Syndicate

Syndicate content
more

Advertisements

Tracking System
GPS Tracking
Tracking System
Private Detectives
Quality Security Services in California
Fleet Management
Hosting

Popular content

Last viewed:

  • DNA Testing Firm Goes Bankrupt; Who Gets the Data?
  • Overseeing Surveillance - Lessons from the UK Experience?
  • It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives
  • Spam Trap Claims 10x-100x Accuracy Gain
  • College advises students to push back against the RIAA
  • EFF Busts Bogus Online Testing Patent
  • Behind the legal fight over NSA's "Stellar Wind" surveillance

tags in Topics

Activists Alert Companies Congress Copyright Court (US) Databases Data Mining Editorial EFF Entertainment Exploits Fourth Amendment Government Hmmm ID Infrastructure Law Enforcement Laws Politics Privacy Remember Reports Rights Security Software Spin Zone Surveillance Telecommunications Tracking
more tags

View blog authority
Congressional Research
Broadcast Flag

EFF fights 'censorship' with Takedown Hall of Shame

Submitted by MacRonin on October 27, 2009 - 11:02pm
  • Activists
  • Companies
  • Copyright
  • DMCA
  • Editorial
  • EFF
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Entertainment
  • First Amendment
  • Hmmm
  • Privacy
  • Rights
  • Scams
  • Spin Zone

EFF fights 'censorship' with Takedown Hall of Shame | NetworkWorld.com Community: Via NetworkWorld.com Community.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation today has aimed a demonstrably potent weapon -- the spotlight of public shame -- at those corporations and individuals who abuse copyright claims to stifle free speech.

From an EFF press release:

"Free speech in the 21st century often depends on incorporating video clips and other content from various sources," explained EFF Senior Staff Attorney and Kahle Promise Fellow Corynne McSherry.  "It's what The Daily Show with Jon Stewart does every night.  This is 'fair use' of copyrighted or trademarked material and protected under U.S. law.  But that hasn't stopped thin-skinned corporations and others from abusing the legal system to get these new works removed from the Internet.  We wanted to document this censorship for all to see."

EFF's Takedown Hall of Shame at www.eff.org/takedowns focuses on the most egregious examples of takedown abuse, including an example of a YouTube video National Public Radio tried to remove just this week that criticizes same-sex marriage.  Other Hall of Shame honorees include NBC for requesting removal of an Obama campaign video and CBS for targeting a McCain campaign video in the critical months before the 2008 election.  The Hall of Shame will be updated regularly, as bad takedowns continue to squash free speech rights of artists, critics, and commentators big and small.

Other hall inductees include: radio blowhard Michael Savage; election bungler Diebold, Inc.; endlessly discredited "paranormalist" Uri Geller; and even the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, which apparently has donned a black hat on such matters.

The Hall of Shame is part of EFF's "No Down for Free Speech" campaign.

The EFF has been exceptionally active of late when it comes to launching Web sites that focus on specific issues; for example: TOSBack, which tracks changes in Web site terms of service so that you don't have to; Surveillance Self-Defense, which offers advice on keeping prying eyes off of your electronic information; and, of course, its longstanding and highly effective Patent Busting Project.

Read Original Article:(Via NetworkWorld.com Community.)

Bookmark/Search this post with:
  • Twitter Twitter
  • Digg Digg
  • StumbleUpon StumbleUpon
  • Technorati Technorati
  • del.icio.us del.icio.us
  • Facebook Facebook
  • Furl Furl
  • LinkedIn LinkedIn
  • Yahoo Yahoo
  • MacRonin's blog
  • Add new comment

Recent blog posts

  • EFF Asks Court to Suppress Evidence Illegally Gathered From Password-Protected Phone
  • Google Superbowl Ad Explains The Need for Search Privacy
  • EFF Fights for Cell Phone Users' Privacy in Thursday Hearing
  • Identifying John Doe: It might be easier than you think
  • ShmooCon: Inside FarmVille's sinister underbelly
  • More Details on the Chinese Attack Against Google (Schneier)
  • The top 5 mistakes of privacy awareness programs
  • ShmooCon: P2P snoopers know what's in your wallet
  • Can you trust Chinese computer equipment?
  • Authors Guild: ‘To RIAA or Not to RIAA’
more

Performancing Metrics

Compilation © Copyright 1997-2010 Paul Hardwick, with Web Hosting provided by MacRonin.com.