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Apparently, Citizens United doesn’t believe in free speech for the...
Citizens United, fresh from its Supreme Court victory giving corporations the right to bankroll election campaigns, has sent a trademark demand letter to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, complaining...
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Airstrike video puts whistleblower Web site in spotlight
David Kushner with Mother Jones takes a fascinating look behind the whistleblower Web site Wikileaks.org, the site everyone is talking about this week after it published the 2007 U.S. military video of...
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Public Citizen takes next step in fighting corporate power in elections
From a Public Citizen press release: With thousands of people across the country uniting against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Public...
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Who would’ve known that the DISCLOSE Act calls for burning books, regulating...
Holman Sophists have long known that when you cannot defeat a proposal based on merit, then resort to groundless – or even false – accusations to create hysteria and confusion over the proposal. Those...
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Facebook owes 700,000 users better explanation on decision to take Boycott BP...
The mysterious disappearance of the Boycott BP fan page from Facebook last night was, apparently, a mistake caused by Facebook’s automated system, or so Facebook says today. Here’s what Facebook told...
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Dorry’s Daily Digest for Sept. 2
A daily look at news from the Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal that caught our eye: Health Maker of Botox Settles Inquiry by Natasha Singer (NYT) Study Sees Heart Risk in Meridia...
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Dissatisfied patient has every right to criticize his surgeons online
A New Jersey man who was left legally blind after supposedly botched lasik eye surgery decided to criticize his surgeons online to inform others of his dissatisfying experience. He ran into more...
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Just because you bought that software doesn’t mean you own it
Beck Most people outside the software industry probably assume that when they pay money in exchange for a package of software, they have just purchased that software. In Vernor v. Autodesk, the Ninth...
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What’s your number?
A meager $293? That’s the average weekly unemployment check collected by the 15 million Americans looking for work right now. Or $293 million? That’s what outside groups funded primarily by...
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Attacks on WikiLeaks threaten online speech, press freedom
Weissman WikiLeaks is under attack from powerful government and corporate officials and entities. The attacks are an assault not only on WikiLeaks, but on freedom of speech, freedom of the press and...
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