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Harvard Law Reviews WikiLeaks Censorship | GroundReport - 1 views

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    Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler is about to release a comprehensive study on the U.S. government and media's role in censoring WikiLeaks. The forthcoming report , to appear in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, titled "A Free Irresponsible Press: WikiLeaks and the Batter over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate." In the report, Benkler dissects the mechanisms that have censored WikiLeaks.
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Demand for Emails of Wisconsin Professor Raises Legal Questions - FIRE - 0 views

  • To the extent that a Wisconsin public university faculty member's emails are connected to a "government function," they may be covered under the state's Open Records law. But whether Cronon's emails meet this criterion is not presently clear. And even then, the court held in Schill that if the emails are in fact records, "then the court must undertake a balancing test to decide whether the statutory presumption favoring disclosure of public records is outweighed by any other public interest."
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    To the extent that a Wisconsin public university faculty member's emails are connected to a "government function," they may be covered under the state's Open Records law. But whether Cronon's emails meet this criterion is not presently clear. And even then, the court held in Schill that if the emails are in fact records, "then the court must undertake a balancing test to decide whether the statutory presumption favoring disclosure of public records is outweighed by any other public interest."
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Speech gets ugly online, but it's still free - 0 views

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    People are seeking support for a federal law that would ban demeaning and mean-spirited comments on memorial sites.
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