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Old Organizations and Related Publications
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(Electronic) Civil Disobedience at Swarthmore
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Wired reports on the clever and brave Swarthmore Students who have vowed to keep electronic voting machine maker Diebold's internal memos concerning security flaws in their systems online despite a rash of cease and desist orders, The Importance Of (October 22, 2003)
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"Pay as You Surf?" or "Bringing Home the Gold to Cable and Phone Monopolies"
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Amazon's Misener and his Coalition of Broadband Users and Innovators, which includes Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Disney, and others, are urging the FCC to adopt a safeguard that would prevent cable or phone giants from "impair [ing] consumer access to Internet content", Center for Digital Democracy (July 28, 2003)
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Security Researchers Discover Huge Flaws in E-Voting System
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In response to today's release of research about critical security flaws in e-voting systems, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged immediate passage of e-voting legislation to prevent election fraud, Electronic Frontier Foundation (July 24, 2003)
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DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions
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Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) protects online service providers (OSPs) from liability for information posted or transmitted by subscribers if they quickly remove or disable access to material identified in a copyright holder's complaint, Chilling Effects (July 1, 2003)
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Public Citizen to Defend SavageStupidity.com Against Savage Lawsuit
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SavageStupidity.com announced today that Public Citizen, a nationally prominent non-profit public interest law firm, has agreed to defend them from a lawsuit filed by Talk Radio Network, Inc., which syndicates "The Savage Nation", a nationally broadcast radio talk show hosted by the infamous Michael Savage (née Weiner), SavageStupidity.com (June 3, 2003)
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Declaration on Freedom of Communication on the Internet
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Among other points, the declaration states: "In order to ensure protection against online surveillance and to enhance the free expression of information and ideas,
member states should respect the will of users of the Internet not to disclose their identity", Committee of Ministers, Council of Europe (May 28, 2003)
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Sex and the Internet
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OPG Executive Director Will Doherty presented a program entitled "Sex and the Internet" to the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in San Jose, CA, Online Policy Group (April 12, 2003)
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The Great Firewall of China
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OPG Executive Director Will Doherty presented a program entitled "The Great Firewall of China: Filtering, Blocking, and
Government Censorship" to the annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in New York City, Online Policy Group (April 3, 2003)
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The Spam Problem: Moving Beyond RBLs
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Alternatives to Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBLs) should be actively deployed because of serious well-known problems with the RBL spam filtering technique, Philip Jacob (December 30, 2002)
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The Wireless Commons
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We have formed the Wireless Commons because a global wireless network is within our grasp, Wireless Commons (December 2, 2002)
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Open Letter to the Yahoo! Chairman
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The "self-discipline pact" submitted to the operators on 16 March 2002 by the Chinese Internet Association, and signed by your local representative, is nothing more than a further escalation of the authorities' attempt to control the circulation of information on the Net, and to put a gag on any form of criticism or any exercising of the right to freedom of expression, Reporters Without Borders (July 16, 2002)
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Staff Misuse Web Despite Policies
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Four out of 10 employers are still receiving complaints about staff wasting time on the web despite the majority having polices in place to prevent misuse, Personnel Today via Websense (July 9, 2002)
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Pledging Self-Discipline
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On March 26, over 100 Chinese Internet business players signed a public pledge to promote "self-discipline" in the country's Internet industry, Digital Freedom Network (April 1, 2002)
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