Google recently commissioned a top first amendment rights academic to make their case that they are a media outlet, much like the New York Times, and are therefore protected by freedom of speech law. However, the French judgment takes the onus off...
From the outset, its purpose is clear: in drawing comparisons to newspapers and other media outlets, scholar Eugene Volokh makes the case against government intervention in search results with a compelling argument to protect the search giant’s...
One of the changes in the amendment, for example, cut out the proposed ability to cut off a website at the DNS level after a notice of infringement, a clause that detractors said offered no due process for those wrongly accused.
It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation—and their ideas from suppression—at the hand of an intolerant society.
Opinions are protected under the First Amendment, just as Google has the right to accept or deny any advertising. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.head of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, has announced that...
Wired pointed out that despite assurances in a congressional white paper that the "proposal prohibits the government from targeting websites for censorship "based solely on activities protected by the First Amendment of the United States...
This is not about First Amendment rights, it is about protecting children," according to Mr. Vivid CEO Steven Hirsch, speaking at Yale University, will call on Google and Yahoo to take measures to keep explicit material from children, according to...
Their responses will refer to such basic Constitutional rights as the First Amendment. The last time a recession reared its ugly head, they were the first our established media partners jettisoned from new business as they drew up the gangplanks to...
Marrero said the non disclosure provisions for NSL recipients violated their First Amendment rights (freedom of speech). This is not the first challenge to the broad provisions of the Patriot Act. Yesterday controversial elements of the Patriot Act...
The EFF supports Google as they see it as a part of first amendment rights. Google's allowing of advertising on trademarked keywords has received the support of the civil rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
In reaction to the US government pressure, a new lawsuit just filed on behalf of Casino City seeks claims that online gaming advertisements are protected by First Amendment free speech rights. Yahoo, Google and several other major web sites and...
In reaction to the US government pressure, a new lawsuit just filed on behalf of Casino City seeks claims that online gaming advertisements are protected by First Amendment free speech rights. The longer version of this story for Search Engine...
Isn't that against your First Amendment right? As for cigarette ads, in the United States, the First Amendment protects against government interference with freedom of speech. Nothing in the First Amendment prevents private parties from imposing...
Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. Google provided a copy of the letter from law firm Moxon & Kobrin to online rights watchdog...
