Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Google, Yahoo!, and Cisco faced questions from the subcommittee on human rights (part of the Senate Judiciary Committee) about their role in China’s Internet censorship system. Cisco was in particularly hot water after an internal document surfaced - it discusses how Cisco technology can “Combat ‘Falun Gong’ evil religion and other hostiles.” Senator Dick Durbin […]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Internet & Society, Corporate Law, Berkman, Filtering, international, Intermediaries, Search Engines
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
I’ve been sitting on this post for what seems like an eternity, but the news embargo has been lifted, and we’re all free to share the fantastic news from Harvard Law School, where the faculty voted unanimously to provide open access to faculty scholarship in an online repository. This makes Harvard the nation’s first […]
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Filed under: Open Access, Berkman, Scholarship, Law School
Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) claims that U.S. hotel chains in China are being pressed to install filtering software to control what material guests access on-line. Having the Olympic Games in China this summer helpfully focuses attention on the country’s Internet censorship regime - arguably the most sophisticated in the world. That said, I’m a bit […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Berkman, Filtering, Intermediaries, international
Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing writes a great op-ed in the New York Times on the use of American technology, from companies such as Secure Computing and Websense, in helping authoritarian countries censor the Internet. (Presumably space was too short for her to mention Cisco in China, or Fortinet, which both helps Burma and misled ONI […]
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Filed under: Digital Media, ISP, Internet & Society, Berkman, Filtering, Scholarship, Intermediaries, Media
Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Tim Armstrong
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, a co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and an author of many influential works in the domain of cyberlaw and intellectual property, announced today that he is thinking of running for Congress to fill the seat recently opened by the death of Rep. Tom Lantos. More […]
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Filed under: Internet & Society, Berkman, Voting, Law School
Posted on November 12th, 2007 by William McGeveran
The Citizen Media Law Project has launched what looks like it could be a fantastic new resource: the Legal Threats Database. They plan to chronicle “lawsuits, cease & desist letters, subpoenas, and other legal threats directed at those who engage in online speech” and allow users to “view, search, and comment on entries in […]
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Filed under: Trademarks, Digital Media, Court Decisions, Copyright, Berkman, Media, Peer Production, Blogging
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by William McGeveran
The ultimate MSM outlet, the New York Times, took a look today at Off the Bus, a still-new venture supported by the Huffington Post that is trying to harness the unruly but potentially powerful forces of crowdsourced reporting to cover the 2008 election campaign. Among their many advantages, they have Berkman alum Amanda Michel […]
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Filed under: Berkman, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Voting, Media, Peer Production, Blogging
Posted on July 25th, 2007 by William McGeveran
In the last few days I’ve been at two gigs involving teaching about law to non-lawyers. It is an eye-opening and highly recommended experience.
Last week I was on the faculty of the annual Summer Doctoral Programme sponsored by the Oxford Internet Institute and this year hosted in the U.S. by the Berkman Center at […]
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Filed under: Copyright, Privacy, Internet & Society, Berkman, international, Anonymity, Scholarship, Law School
Posted on June 26th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Rebecca Mackinnon, a journalism professor at the University of Hong Kong (who is also a former Berkman fellow, co-founder of Global Voices, and CNN bureau chief in Beijing and Tokyo) has a long thoughtful post about the effort to establish social responsibility standards for international internet companies that must grapple with issues of censorship and […]
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Filed under: Berkman, Privacy, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Anonymity, international, Search Engines
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by William McGeveran
We have heard from a number of readers about problems viewing the blog — particularly, it seems, on the new Internet Explorer 7. (Yet another strike against restrictive and metadata-searching Vista…) There is a major upgrade coming soon on the Harvard blog server run by the Berkman Center, which graciously continues to host […]
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Filed under: Berkman, Blogging