My state’s senators (that’s Montana, by the way) rather reasonably think that the REAL ID Act is a load of crap that won’t do a heck of a lot to protect Americans from anything but will limit the amount of personal freedom people have from government oversight.
So this week, along with senators from several other [...]
According to CNET, a lawmaker in Kentucky is pushing a bill that would require people to post only their real names to Web sites, lest the owners of the sites face legal repercussions.
Of course, this has a lot of people up in arms. The Internet has always been a haven for anonymous writing. Why [...]
The bank Julius Bear moved to withdraw its lawsuit against the whistle-blower Web site Wikileaks.
The bank said Wikileaks had displayed stolen, confidential bank documents on its site. A judge in California ordered the site taken off the Internet — meaning, as I understand it, that its name was removed from DNS registrars.
The New York Times [...]
