It’s Time to Speak Up to Save Your Internet Today is the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality, in which more than 50,000 people, sites, and organizations, including Amazon, Etsy Facebook, Google, Kickstarter, Mozilla, Netflix, OK Cupid, Reddit, Twitter and Vimeo, will demonstrate to oppose the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) plan to…
“Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press” Director Brian Knappenberger In March 2016, a Florida jury returned a $140 million verdict in favor of Terry Bollea aka Hulk Hogan against Gawker Media for publishing a tape of him having sex with the wife of his best friend (shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge). As the verdict…
In two unanimous rulings today, the Supreme Court invalidated laws restricting free speech with respect to sex offender use of social media and trademark registration of disparaging terms. In Packingham v North Carolina, the Supreme Court addressed a North Carolina law that barred sex offenders from using social media. Packingham was a convicted sex offender,…
A federal judge in Kentucky has allowed a lawsuit against Donald Trump and others stemming from the following incident at a March 1 rally in Louisville: The lawsuit charges Trump with incitement to riot, vicarious liability, and negligence on the part of Trump and his campaign for calling on the crowd to “get ’em out of here”. As…
A California appellate court handed Glassdoor, the website where employees and former employees anonymously review companies and their management, a major victory by upholding its standing to challenge subpoenas for reviews submitted by its users. Online game developer MZ, initiated a Doe action alleging that reviews posted on Glassdoor violated their company nondisclosure agreement (“NDA”). It…
As stated by Ars Technica, Techdirt’s founder, Mike Masnick, is famous for taking ” no prisoners when it comes to his writings about intellectual property, net neutrality, the law, and everything in between.” Masnick was especially dismissive of Shiva Ayyadurai’s claim to have invented email as a fourteen-year old in 1978. Dr. Ayyadurai, hired Charles Harder of…
On Monday, First Lady Melania Trump filed a defamation action against London’s Daily Mail over a story that alleged that she once worked as an “elite escort” in the “sex business”. The story was later retracted and was little noticed until Charles Harder (of Hulk Hogan v Gawker fame) files this complaint less than a month after…
