Google is resisting a national security letter (NSL) from the FBI demanding that it offer up private information about its users.
We already live in our own personal social media reality bubbles. Now Twitter is providing entire countries with their own reality bubbles.
Editor's Pick The only time you're likely to see Gawker on Reddit these days is if its in reference to the self-imposed ban many users have placed on all the news organization's websites.
Russia’s parliament has approved an Internet censorship bill ostensibly aimed at porn, drugs, and hate speech that critics claim will also be used to stifle dissent and freedom of speech.
As we reported earlier, the new legislation is a series …
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Arizona is considering a new law that would criminalize Internet trolling, and I fully support the idea.
First, let’s take a look at the hard news. Arizona House Bill 2549, which has already passed both the Arizona House of Representatives …
Indonesia’s Communications and Information Minister has declared that anyone tweeting illegal content, such as blasphemy, pornography, and threats, could spend up to 12 years in prison.
Indonesia has a strained history with free speech issues and open media, so a …
Twitter is becoming quite the tightrope artist with new technology that will help it better walk the thin line between supporting free speech and honoring takedown requests.
The information network has developed a system for withholding tweets from the streams …
Israeli legal center Shurat HaDin has threatened to sue Twitter for allowing alleged terrorist groups to use the service.
In a letter to Twitter, Shurat HaDin executive director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner called Twitter’s allowing Hezbollah and Al-Shabaab (a group affiliated with …
User-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia shut down its Italian website yesterday to protest a proposed privacy law drafted by the Italian government, reports The Atlantic.
The law would force websites to remove any information identified as defamatory to an individual within 48 …
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(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
A reader asks: My business has been hit with several negative reviews online that I believe are unfair. Can I …
