Diverse Groups United Against Any Short-Term Reauthorization of Section 215
Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet
Facebook's Internet.org project, which offers people from developing countries free mobile access to selected websites, has been pitched as a philanthropic initiative to connect two thirds of the world who don’t yet have Internet access. We completely agree that the global digital divide should be closed. However, we question...
Finally! Victory for Free Speech in Garcia v. Google
Finally! Victory for Free Speech in Garcia v. Google
Fifteen months after it issued an extraordinary order requiring Google to take down a controversial video, based entirely on a specious copyright claim, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has seen the light and rescinded that order.
Quick background: The video in question, called "Innocence of Muslims," is...
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair to Constituents: I Don't Care What You Think
Update: A recent poll conducted in North Carolina finds that nearly two-thirds of respondents think the Patriot Act should not be reauthorized in its current form.
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 2048, the USA Freedom Act last week. The bill is an attempt by lawmakers...
EFF To Testify At Hearings To Expand DMCA Exemptions for Car Repair, Old Video Games, Jailbreaking, and Video Remixes
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. - Experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will testify at public hearings held by the U.S. Copyright Office this week and next, urging officials to grant and expand critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The exemptions will secure the right to...
Court Finds That Section 230 Shields Website From Child Trafficking Claims
UPDATE: In March 2016, relying in large part on Section 230, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiffs' lawsuit.
A federal judge in Massachusetts dismissed a lawsuit brought against the classified ads website Backpage.com over posting ads for the...
EFF and Gamers to Copyright Office: Multiplayer Matters (of course)
Imagine you could only play Call of Duty against someone sitting next to you, or were limited to only playing the single-player campaign of Starcraft II or against the AI in Civilization V. Those games wouldn’t be nearly as fun – some of them wouldn’t be the same game! But...
California Lawmakers Propose Task Force to Review Computer Crime Laws—Guess Who’s Not Invited to the Table
Whenever lawmakers congregate to discuss computer crime, you can reliably predict that the debate will gravitate toward expanding police powers, leaving the realistic concerns of everyday Internet users by the wayside. After all, fearmongering around the film War Games helped fuel the passage of the Computer Fraud and...
Senate Reverses Course and Advances TPP Fast Track Bill
The U.S. Senate advanced the Fast Track bill today in a rushed vote following a slew of concessions made to swing Democrats who had voted to block it earlier this week. The setback on Tuesday could have forced proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Transatlantic...
