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Media Coverage - Old Coverage
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Star Wars Kid Files Lawsuit
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The parents of the infamous "Star Wars Kid" are suing classmates who posted a humiliating video of their son on the Net, according to Canada's Globe and Mail, Wired News (July 24, 2003)
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Parents File Lawsuit Over Star Wars Video
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The parents of Ghyslain Raza, the Quebec teenager who became a celebrity this spring after classmates posted on the Internet a video of him mimicking a Star Wars character, allege that their son was so humiliated by the experience that he had to get psychiatric care, Globe and Mail (July 23, 2003)
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A Web Site Causes Unease in Police
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William Sheehan does not like the police and he expresses his views about what he calls police corruption in Washington State on his Web site, where he also posts lists of police officers' addresses, home phone numbers and Social Security numbers., New York Times (July 12, 2003)
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The Ignoble Savage
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Talk Radio Network Inc. (TRN), an Oregon-based company that syndicates Savage's hate-filled right-wing talk show, "The Michael Savage Show," to 305 radio stations around the country, is suing Julie Sigwart, co-founder of the Web site TakeBacktheMedia.com (TBTM); Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt and Leavitt Enterprises, who produce www.savagestupidity.com; and unknown individual "John Doe," who produces www.michaelsavagesucks.com, Alternet.org (June 9, 2003)
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U.S. Wants Court Out of Abortion Case
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The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to reject a politically charged abortion case that seeks free-speech protection for protesters who used "wanted" posters to target doctors, Associated Press via Yahoo! News (June 2, 2003)
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Monster.com's Resume Purge Draws Fire
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In a move the company claims is designed to comply with federal regulations, Monster.com on Thursday will delete most references to certain countries from job postings and resumes, CNET News.com (April 23, 2003)
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Australian Laws Challenged at UN
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An American journalist being sued by Australian mining magnate Joe Gutnick has responded by challenging Australia's defamation laws at the United Nations, Sydney Morning Herald (April 18, 2003)
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Use of 'Gay' May Block AIDS Research
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Federal health officials have given undocumented warnings to scientists who study AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases to keep words like "gay" and "transgender" out of their grant applications if they wish to receive funds, the New York Times reported on Friday, PlanetOut (April 18, 2003)
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Certain Words Can Trip Up AIDS Grants, Scientists Say
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Scientists who study AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases say they have been warned by federal health officials that their research may come under unusual scrutiny by the Department of Health and Human Services or by members of Congress, because the topics are politically controversial, New York Times (free registration) (April 18, 2003)
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Abusive Emailer Jailed for 18 Months
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A radio listener who hounded a veteran presenter with anti-semitic email messages during a six-year campaign of harassment was yesterday jailed for 18 months, The Guardian (March 4, 2003)
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Anti-Abortion Activist Complains Paypal Seized His Account
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Neil Horsley, publisher of The Christian Gallery News Service, has reported that Paypal seized his account and impounded the funds therein because, in Paypal's words, Horsley ran "an ultra violent anti-abortion web site that advocated the murder of abortion doctors", Resistance Radio (requires Flash) (March 4, 2003)
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DMCA: Dow What It Wants to Do
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Responding to Digital Millennium Copyright Act charges over a Dow Chemical parody site, Verio plans to throw The Thing--an ISP which has provided Internet connectivity, technical support and Web design services to New York City artists and political activists for over a decade--offline next month, Wired News (December 31, 2002)
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Beating Victim May Have Met Killer Online
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A year after Ottawa police warned gay men about assaults connected to a telephone dating line, an Ottawa man was found dead in his apartment on Wednesday after what friends believe was an encounter with a man he may have met online or over the phone, Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network (December 6, 2002)
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French Order Is Greek to 9th Circuit
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An order barring the cross-Atlantic enforcement of a French court's order against Yahoo Inc. hit rough waters Monday at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, The Recorder (December 3, 2002)
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Alumni Group Threatens Lawsuit Over Website Ban
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An alumni group is threatening to take the Air Force Academy to court, hoping to force the school to stop blocking computers on its network from accessing the group's parody website at edodo.org, Air Force Times (December 2, 2002)
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Europeans Outlaw Net Hate Speech
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The Council of Europe has adopted a measure that would criminalize Internet hate speech, including hyperlinks to pages that contain offensive content, Wired News (November 9, 2002)
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Australians to Pull Plug on Protest Websites
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Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison, acting on a request from NSW Police Minister Michael Costa, will look at upgrading federal powers to block certain "unacceptable websites advocating or facilitating violent protest action be accessible from Australia", The Courier-Mail (November 7, 2002)
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Why Human Rights Requires Free Software
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Human rights is the global currency of modern politics; whenever the United States attacks a country, diplomatically or physically, it cites human rights claims; and by a not-so-surprising irony, the critics of the United States and its allies complain of human rights violations as well, O'Reilly Network (October 11, 2002)
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Professors Want Own Names Put on Mideast Blacklist
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In an effort to counter what they label as a McCarthyesque hunt by a pro-Israel think tank, about 100 professors from across the country have asked to be added to a "Campus Watch" Web site that singled out eight professors because of their views on Palestine and Islam, San Francisco Chronicle (September 28, 2002)
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Court Won't Hear Suit Blaming Media
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A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a $33 million lawsuit that blamed video game makers, a pornographic Web site and a movie studio for a deadly 1997 school shooting spree, Associated Press via FindLaw (August 14, 2002)
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Jail for Equatorial Guinea Net Slur
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Opposition leader Fabian Nseu Guema has been sentenced to one year in prison for insulting Equatorial Guinea's president on the internet, BBC News (July 31, 2002)
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Internet Extends Legal Reach of National Governments
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Police in Italy didn't care that five Web sites they deemed blasphemous and thus illegal were located in the United States, where First Amendment protections apply, Associated Press via SiliconValley.com (July 21, 2002)
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Big Names Allege Abortion Foe Exploits Their Tags
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Several of the nation's highest-profile corporations sued a South St. Paul man in federal court Thursday, alleging that he is a "cyber squatter" exploiting their famous or distinctive trademarks to promote his views against abortion, Minneapolis Star Tribune (July 19, 2002)
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Israel Blocks Palestinian ISP
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Early Monday morning, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) troops took over the offices of Palnet, the leading Palestinian Internet service provider, shutting down the firm's operations, Wired News (July 16, 2002)
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Make Hate Not Anti-Globalization
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Right-wing extremists looking for converts appear to be trying to subvert the anti-globalization movement, using at least one intentionally confusing website and possibly even showing up at major protests to recruit activists directly, Wired News (July 13, 2002)
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Dear Member: You've Been Deleted
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OPG Executive Director Will Doherty comments on Yahoo!
yanking the Guerilla Queer Bar website, as well as similar
activities of other online services providers, Wired News (July 11, 2002)
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Deceptive Names Promote Anti-Abortion Site
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An anti-abortion activist is buying up Internet domain names with slight variations on names of major news outlets, businesses and the National Organization for Women and linking them to a website profiling gruesome pictures of bloody, aborted fetuses, Chicago Sun-Times (July 11, 2002)
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Terrorism Plays New Role in Web, Games
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Advertisements for suicide bombers, promotions of violence and "shoot-em-up" games have proliferated on the Internet since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Reuters via CNET News.com (July 8, 2002)
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ISPs Concerned About Hate Speech Protocol
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BNA's Electronic Commerce and Law Report reports that though
the U.S. may not sign the developing hate speech protocol to
the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention, U.S-based
service and Web gateway providers are still concerned
about the spread of hate speech laws and attempts to impose
liability for third-party activities, BNA (requires registration) (July 5, 2002)
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Student's Pornographic Story Brings Charge
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A Shenendehowa senior faces up to a year in jail for allegedly depicting fellow students and at least one teacher engaged in sexual activities in a pornographic story posted on an Internet site, investigators and prosecutors said Wednesday, Times Union (June 6, 2002)
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Retiree Stuck in Netter's Prison
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A 70-year-old man has been in jail for more than three months for refusing to delete from his website addresses and other personal data of employees at the retirement home that evicted him, Associated Press via Wired News (June 6, 2002)
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Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center released a CD-ROM disc in Toronto today, titled Digital Hate 2002, that collects more than 200 websites containing animated hate games, online enrollment for suicide bombers, and "other examples of transnational hate and promotion of terror after the 9/11 terrorist attacks", Wired News (May 22, 2002)
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Appeals Court Says Doctors Threatened
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A US federal appeals court has ruled that antiabortion
activists who created Wild West-style posters and a website
called the Nuremberg Files condemning abortion doctors can
be held liable because their works amounted to illegal
threats, not free speech, Wall Street Journal (May 17, 2002)
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Abortion Foes Are Ruled a Threat
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An Internet website and "wanted" posters created by militant abortion foes were real threats to doctors and the clinics where they worked and are not protected by the 1st Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, Los Angeles Times (May 17, 2002)
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Federal Appeals Court Says Abortion Foes Intimidated Doctors
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A federal appeals court reversed course Thursday and ruled that anti-abortion activists who created Wild West-style posters and a Web site condemning abortion doctors can be held liable because their works amounted to illegal threats, not free speech, Associated Press via SF Gate (May 16, 2002)
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Decision Time in Front14.org Case
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Final arguments have wrapped up in a French court that will
decide whether ISPs in France will be forced to block access
to Front14.org, an American portal that hosts hate Web
sites, Washington Post (requires registration/fee) (October 4, 2001)
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Ex-Lawmaker Settles Lesbian Defamation Suit
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A former Hollister, Calif., city councilman reached a settlement with the lesbian owners of the town's weekly newspaper, the Pinnacle, after he admitted to authoring several anti-gay attacks against them, their paper and their leading columnist, Gay.com (May 10, 2001)
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Background on the "Nuremberg Files" Case
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Information and links from Politech about the developments in the case regarding the website with the wild-west style posters branding abortion doctors as "baby butchers", Declan McCullagh's Politech (March 28, 2001)
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Court: OK to Encourage Abortion Threat
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A federal appeals court threw out a record $109 million verdict against anti-abortion rights activists today, ruling that a website and wanted posters branding abortion doctors "baby butchers" and criminals is protected by the First Amendment, Associated Press via ABCNews.com (March 28, 2001)
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Germany Drops Yahoo 'Mein Kampf' Auction Probe
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German prosecutors have decided they won't
take legal action against U.S.-based Yahoo over online auctions of Adolf
Hitler's Mein Kampf, a spokesman said, Associated Press via USA Today (March 22, 2001)
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German Prosecutors Drop Yahoo! "Mein Kampf" Probe
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German authorities said on Wednesday they planned no legal action against Internet portal Yahoo! Inc
over online auctions of copies of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" book, which is banned in Germany, Reuters (March 21, 2001)
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Rwanda Tribunal Wants to Constrain Websites
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The United Nations tribunal for Rwanda said Wednesday that it had appealed for U.S. legal help to curb potentially defamatory Internet sites maintained for two men on trial for genocide, Reuters via CNET News.com (February 28, 2001)
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French Auschwitz Group Seeks Symbolic Yahoo Damages
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French representatives of Nazi concentration camp inmates filed a suit against the head of Yahoo! Inc.,
claiming a symbolic one franc (15 U.S. cents) of damages for the U.S. Internet giant's alleged
justification of war crimes, Reuters (January 22, 2001)
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Fear Comes to Hollister
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In a case that pits the privacy of anonymous website authors against protections against potential defamation, gay owners of a small-town weekly sue to discover who is tormenting them, San Francisco Chronicle (December 10, 2000)
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Rutgers U. Students Meet to Plan Action Against Website
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A group of about 25 Rutgers University students met to plan a course of action against the on-campus circulation of a flier advertising a Web-based animation titled "Mr. Wong" Monday night in the main lounge of the Crosby Residence Hall on the Busch campus, U-Wire via AsianAvenue.com (October 13, 2000)
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Flier Raises Questions in Rutgers U. Asian Community
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An audience of about 50 students and leaders of the Asian-American community met in Rutgers University`s Busch Campus Center on Friday to discuss a flier being circulated on campus that is perceived by some as an attempt to defame Asian Americans, U-Wire via AsianAvenue.com (October 10, 2000)
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LA Weekly Issues Apology for Running "Mr. Wong" Ad
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The cartoon depicts an elderly Asian man as a domestic servant for a young society woman who abuses him and ridicules his difficulties in pronouncing English and in driving cars, among other stereotypes, Los Angeles Times (October 6, 2000)
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GayLebanon.com Case Causes Stir
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Lebanese government charges ISP owner and human rights organizer with defaming the nation even though they had no role in hosting a GayLebanon.com website, Beirut Daily Star (September 25, 2000)
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A New Season of Mr. Wong
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The cartoon depicts an elderly Asian man as a domestic servant for a young society woman who abuses him and ridicules his difficulties in pronouncing English and in driving cars, among other stereotypes, aOnline.com (September 22, 2000)
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Abortion Website Verdict Appealed
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Anti-abortion activists appeal jury verdict regarding alleged threats against abortion doctors appearing on "The Nuremberg Files" website, Associated Press via excite.com (September 12, 2000)
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Web Co's Combat Anti-Semitism
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Online anti-semitism in wake of nomination of Lieberman as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Associated Press via Las Vegas Sun (August 9, 2000)
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Funny or Racist? "Mr. Wong" Draws Mixed Reaction
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The cartoon depicts an elderly Asian man as a domestic servant for a young society woman who abuses him and ridicules his difficulties in pronouncing English and in driving cars, among other stereotypes, Los Angeles Times (July 31, 2000)
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Web Cartoon Provokes Strong Reactions From Asian Americans
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The cartoon depicts an elderly Asian man as a domestic servant for a young society woman who abuses him and ridicules his difficulties in pronouncing English and in driving cars, among other stereotypes, aOnline.com (June 19, 2000)
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Web Cartoon Provokes Strong Reactions From Asian Americans
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The cartoon depicts an elderly Asian man as a domestic servant for a young society woman who abuses him and ridicules his difficulties in pronouncing English and in driving cars, among other stereotypes, aOnline.com (June 15, 2000)
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Hey, Hollywood - Over Here!
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Some startups like Icebox are trying to get back into the old business of TV and movies, The Standard (June 5, 2000)
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