MFIA Amicus in Illinois First Amendment case- with EFF

The Media Freedom and Information Practicum is proud to announce that, along with EFF, it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online critic of a local political candidate in the comments section of a local newspaper’s website. Battle Over Message Board Flame War [...]

why surveillance matters

As a follow-up to Nabiha’s great post on terrorism and open access: As Nabiha said, our interest in terrorism-related issues has to do with the barriers the government places to access. Our interest in surveillance speaks more generally to the democratic conditions necessary for newsgathering. Newsgatherers cannot properly gather news if they know that they’re [...]

Tweet-Crime?

We’re starting to see more domestic coverage of l’affaire Elliot Madison, the self-described political anarchist who has been charged with using Twitter to apprise protesters of police movements at the recent G20 Summit. Our own Laura DeNardis weighed in via this Reuters story, highlighting the double standard between Twitter activism in Iran and Pittsburgh. Is [...]

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