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CIO
February 15, 2002
Bill Wall |
An Imperfect Cybercrime Treaty The Council of Europe approved the 27th draft of the Convention on Cybercrime, the first international treaty on crime in cyberspace. This may help in prosecuting hackers, but there are some issues that cause concern.   |
PC World
September 21, 2001
Tom Spring |
Digital Hate Speech Roars ISPs, site hosts try to balance angry chats, hateful sites, censorship, and free speech... |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Google, Facebook, And Twitter Crack Down On Hate Speech In Germany As per a new deal with the German government, hate speech posted on Facebook, Twitter, and Google will be flagged and removed from the view of German users within 24 hours. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
When Does Hate Speech Cross The Line On Social Media? Facebook, Twitter and other private companies aren't subject to laws that protect people from government interference in free speech, but they've borrowed some of the same theoretical frameworks. |
Reason
December 2001 |
Guarding the Home Front Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism? A panel of experts discuss which civil liberties they think are most at risk in what has been called America's first 21st century war... |
Reason
October 2004
John Berlau |
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights. |
Reason
March 2009
Brian Doherty |
Soothsayer Speech No fortunetelling ban |
InternetNews
June 29, 2005 |
Industry Groups Push For Cyber Crime Treaty The coalition puts pressure on the US Senate for ratification of international cyber crime treaty. |
Reason
January 2001
Cathy Young |
God Talk The First Amendment vs. freedom of speech... |
ifeminists
October 7, 2003
Thor L. Halvorssen |
University of Alabama Drops Censorship Policy The administration of the University of Alabama has "indefinitely" tabled a policy outlawing all window displays in student dormitories. The policy was issued after a student was ordered to remove a confederate flag from the door of his dorm room. |
Reason
February 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Civics Lessons In a highly polarized time, pedagogues seem increasingly wary of the "disruptive" effect of student political speech in America. |
New Architect
September 2002
Bret A. Fausett |
The Hague Treaty Adoption National boundaries will no longer be a practical defense to civil liability. This all makes wonderful sense for international business-to-business transactions. But the participants in the process of the Hague convention treaty didn't think too much about the Internet. |
ifeminists
July 29, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
University Students Deserve Human Rights This September, make sure the students you care for pack protection of their civil liberties in with clothing and reference books. This is essential for students who are male, white, conservative, openly Christian, or from affluent families. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Love for Hate Crime Laws Enhancing penalties for crimes when they are motivated by bigotry punishes what people say, think, and believe, in violation of the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously disagreed. |
ifeminists
July 6, 2005
Carey Roberts |
Independence Day 2005: Lessons for Leftists Deploring a "long train of abuses and usurpations," the Declaration contains a list of particulars that remarkably foreshadows many of the flash-points our nation faces in 2005. |
InternetNews
January 19, 2007
Roy Mark |
Senate: Write Away, Bloggers Republicans force changes in language calling for greater reporting requirements for grassroots groups and political bloggers. |
Reason
February 2006
Matt Welch |
The War on Sedition English-speaking American allies crack down on speech in the name of fighting Islamic terrorism. |
Reason
May 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Advertising Dissent Drug warriors back down: A district judge ruled that a 2004 law banning pro-drug advertisements from mass transit outlets was a clear example of viewpoint discrimination and therefore presumptively invalid under the First Amendment. |
Reason
November 2004
Julian Sanchez |
Minding Your Business More and more, Washington is using private-sector intermediaries to circumvent the Fourth Amendment's restrictions on the information its agents can directly gather. |
PC World
October 16, 2002
Michelle Madigan |
ACLU Campaign Challenges Patriot Act Privacy unnecessarily threatened under broad surveillance powers, civil liberties group charges. |
Reason
February 2003
Jesse Walker |
Zoning Speech Apparently, when George W. Bush comes to town, the right of free assembly gets suspended. |
Reason
July 2005 |
Who Should Reign Supreme? Libertarian legal experts weigh in on who their favorites are--past, present, and future--on the nation's highest court. |
Reason
December 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Be Seeing E.U. In the wake of last summer's bombings in London, British authorities are pushing for European Union-wide rules requiring mobile phone companies and Internet service providers to keep records of information about each call, text message, e-mail, and Internet log-in to pass through their systems. |
Reason
April 2002
Jeremy Lott |
Fake IDs Facial recognition technology is often billed as a tradeoff between privacy and security. A recent American Civil Liberties Union report suggests that it's closer to a no-win deal, resulting in less privacy and precious little added security... |
Reason
May 2001
Loren Lomasky |
Talking the Talk Have universities lost sight of why they exist? |
National Defense
January 2004
John Stanton |
Uncertainty Remains About U.S. Landmine Policy There is mounting criticism from arms-control advocates about the U.S. failure to ratify the treaty, which already has been signed by 150 nations. The Defense Department is continuing to develop alternative technologies, in the expectation that if suitable alternatives are developed, the United States could be in a position to ratify the treaty. |
National Defense
July 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Futile to Control Internet Terrorist Recruitment, Witnesses Say Experts have compared the use of the Internet by terrorists and their propagandists to jungle warfare. |
ifeminists
August 24, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Will Colleges Respect Your Child's Rights? As parents hustle to buy clothing, repair secondhand cars and otherwise fret about college, they should consider how their son or daughter's human rights will fare on campus. Their freedom of speech is particularly vulnerable. |
Information Today
October 6, 2015
George H. Pike |
The Legal Implications of Banned Books Week The American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read by drawing attention to attempts to censor reading materials in public, school, and academic libraries. |
