Posts under ‘Issues’

Peter Scheer, executive of the California First Amendment Coalition, asks, “What if online portals had nothing but ‘digital fish wrap’?” He writes: Newspapers and wire services need to figure out a way, without running afoul of antitrust laws, to agree to embargo their news content from the free Internet for a brief period — say, […]

UPDATED Names@Work: Senator Would Outlaw Anonymous Blogs. New proposed legislation (in Brazil) would make it a crime, punishable by four years in jail, to anonymously send email, join a chat forum, download content, or write a blog. This is going to be a constant battle around the world in coming years. Governments loathe anonymity. But […]

(This guest posting comes via Lauren Gelman, deputy director of the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School.) UPDATED When we asked for your questions, we never expected that 80% would be about taking photographs or videos at the polls. Research by student fellows at the Stanford University Law School’s Center for Internet […]

The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society asked you for your questions about Election Day legal issues, and you responded. Below are some questions and answers, which will become a “Frequently Asked Questions” (FAQ) page, and we will be adding more soon. NOTE: If you’re planning to take photos or videos, please look […]

Tom Evslin asks: “VoterStory.org – What is the Story?” This site is asking citizens to keep an eye on electronic voting machines tomorrow, Election Day. Specifically: Tom wants to know who’s getting the data the site seeks from voters, who’s keeping it and for how long. He notes that there’s a lot of personal information […]

Daniel Glover (National Journal): A Guide To Enterprise Blogging. The great thing about FOIA is that it’s not just for journalists. Any citizen can use it, and that includes bloggers.

NY Times: A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data. If things go as planned for liberal bloggers in the next few weeks, searching Google for “Jon Kyl,” the Republican senator from Arizona now running for re-election, will produce high among the returns a link to an April 13 article from The Phoenix New Times, an […]

Somewhat related to the posting below, the Video the Vote project says it wants to: protect the vote by being the eyes and ears where ballots are cast and counted on Election Day. We will document and report any irregularities that occur at polling places and boards of elections while they are happening, enabling the […]

If you’re a blogger or other citizen media creator and plan to cover happenings on Election Day, you may be wondering about some of the legal situations you may encounter. Ask your questions at the question page for an upcoming Election Day Bloggers’ Legal Guide, and Stanford University Law students will work on getting the […]

USA Today: Pundit Armstrong Williams settles case over promoting education reforms. Armstrong Williams says the $34,000 he will repay to the U.S. government is a small price to pay to put a 2-year-old punditry scandal behind him. Is he joking? This isn’t behind him. Armstrong Williams will always be known as a classic opinion launderer. […]