Here’s what happens when the truth gets told: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001909527_coffin22m.html “A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday’s edition of The Seattle Times. … Since 1991, the Pentagon has banned the media from taking pictures of caskets being returned to […]
“All this handringing by librarians and others is ridiculous. Google is a commercial service and business. They clearly state what they will be doing. If you don’t like it go someplace else. Also, remember the old internet adage: ‘Do not send stuff in an e-mail that you would not want on the front page of […]
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/08/scalia.reporters.ap/index.html “HATTIESBURG, Mississippi (AP) — Two reporters were ordered Wednesday to erase their tape recordings of a speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Mississippi high school. … [Scalia] said he spends most of his time thinking about the Constitution, calling it ‘a brilliant piece of work.” Bookmark to:
As Jenny Levine points out, Walt Crawford has an excellent 20-page special issue of Cites and Insights devoted to the “broadcast flag,” a digital-rights technology which if the FCC has its way will be built into all digital TVs manufactured after June, 2005. If, like me, you felt on reading Walt’s discussion that you had […]
My partner and I stood on line for over three hours tonight, but after that long haul were able to make an appointment to get married at noon on Friday, March 5, 2004, at San Francisco City Hall. Thanks to Mayor Newsom and all the supportive people in SF’s government for making this possible. We […]
Former ALA president Nancy Kranich explains that “forcing libraries to choose between funding, equitable access, and censorship means millions of library users will lose, particularly those Americans who reside in the most poverty-stricken areas of the country.” http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/ifissues/issuesrelatedlinks/whyfilterswontprotect.htm I wish this article gave more thought to the elephant in ALA’s living room: the problem of […]
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/jaeger/ First Monday–one of the best journals on the Web–has an outstanding, must-read article about CIPA: “Potential legal challenges to the application of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in public libraries: Strategies and issues,” by Paul T. Jaeger and Charles R. McClure. These gentlemen speak truth to justice, outlining not only short-term implementation problems […]
2003 was a rough year for press freedom. Read about it here: http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=8969 Bookmark to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/politics/27PATR.html And it happened right here in the Golden State: “In Los Angeles, the judge, Audrey B. Collins of Federal District Court, said in a decision made public on Monday that a provision in the law banning certain types of support for terrorist groups was so vague that it risked running afoul of the First […]
Good for him! He made reference to being a “good patriot,” wink wink, nudge nudge. Catch his comments online, once the program is archived, at http://www.prairiehome.org/. Bookmark to: