New online video asks commissioner Mignon Clyburn to stand strong and protect wireless users
12.07.2010– When the Federal Communications Commission votes on network neutrality provisions – the Internet’s Bill of Rights – on December 21st, 2010, hundreds of thousands of wireless users may find themselves unprotected by the new rules.
As the FCC inches closer to one of the most significant telecommunications decisions in recent history, some groups are concerned that wireless users will be unprotected by new Internet safeguards. In a recent speech, FCC Chariman Genchowski made it clear that wireless users could expect less protection from net neutrality provisions than other Internet users. As studies have repeatedly demonstrated that African-Americans, Latinos, and young people primarily access the web through wireless devices- advocates working on poverty and race are deeply concerned that the proposed rules do not give these users equal protection, and would entrench an already expansive digital divide.
Groups criticizing a recent proposal circulated by FCC Chair Genachowski say the outcome of this decision will determine whether the Internet is turned over to big companies or remains protected and in the hands of users.
Issue: (1) Whether the prohibition of awarding damages to public figures to compensate for the intentional infliction of emotional distress, under the Supreme Court’s First Amendment precedents, applies to a case involving two private persons regarding a private matter; (2) whether the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment trumps its freedom of religion and peaceful assembly; and (3) whether an individual attending a family member’s funeral constitutes a “captive audience” who is entitled to state protection from unwanted communication.
Plain English Issue: Does the First Amendment protect protesters at a funeral from liability for intentionally inflicting emotional distress on the family of the deceased?
Luke Angel was reprimanded by police on both sides of the Atlantic after firing off a drunken message to the White House calling the president a “p****”.
Sky News - UK
The FBI intercepted the message and contacted police in the UK who went to see the 17-year-old at his home in Silsoe, Bedfordshire.
Luke, a college student, is now on a list of people who are banned from visiting the States.
The teenager told the Bedfordshire On Sunday newspaper that he had sent the email after watching a TV programme about September 11.
Bruce Maiman of Examiner.com reported that police arrests for videotaping their actions is on the rise.
The story starts in Maryland where a man with a motorcycle is speeding on I-95. Anthony Graber admits to speeding and even showboating (he popped a wheelie at one point). He’s pulled over for speeding but that’s not the problem. He got the ticket but he also had a video camera in his helmet and he’s recording the arrest. At that point, the state trooper –a plainclothes officer– cuts him off and draws a gun.
If you look carefully at the video, you see the plainclothes trooper get out of his vehicle, gun drawn, but no badge, or at least not one plainly visible, not one as readily displayed as the gun.
Graber says he thought he was being robbed. Police say Graber backed his bike up slightly, “creating a brief moment of fear” for the plainclothes officer. In the video, he quickly holsters his gun after getting out of the vehicle. And the point to a marked car behind Graber’s bike and argue that Graber knew what was happening.
Graber received the ticket and forgot about the incident, but after he posted the video on YouTube, police arrived at his home, search warrants in hand, and take his camera, two computers, two laptops, all the hard drives and he’s indicted for violating state wiretapping laws by recording the trooper without his consent.
A writer masquerading as a conservative who was supposed to be covering the conservative movement has quit his job under fire at the Washington Post. The writer, David Weigel, left after it came to light that he had made disparaging remarks about conservative personalities on a private email list of liberal journalists. The scandal involves The Washington Post, Reason magazine, and a network of “independent” on-line publications with funding from billionaire George Soros and multi-millionaire gay mogul Tim Gill.
The US senators pushing a controversial new bill that some fear would give President Barack Obama the powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet have rejected claims it would give Obama a net “kill switch”.
“Her speech is sign of the maturing of the administration on this issue,” said Stewart Baker, former undersecretary for policy with the Department of Homeland Security. “They now appreciate the risks and the trade-offs much more clearly than when they first arrived, and to their credit, they’ve adjusted their preconceptions.”
WASHINGTON — Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation’s homeland security chief said Friday.
As terrorists increasingly recruit U.S. citizens, the government needs to constantly balance Americans’ civil rights and privacy with the need to keep people safe, said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
But finding that balance has become more complex as homegrown terrorists have used the Internet to reach out to extremists abroad for inspiration and training. Those contacts have spurred a recent rash of U.S.-based terror plots and incidents.
“The First Amendment protects radical opinions, but we need the legal tools to do things like monitor the recruitment of terrorists via the Internet,” Napolitano told a gathering of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
Napolitano’s comments suggest an effort by the Obama administration to reach out to its more liberal, Democratic constituencies to assuage fears that terrorist worries will lead to the erosion of civil rights.
[Monitoring is not the problem. Is Echelon broke down? Her profile of "homegrown terror" in her previous work (PDF) is the problem. Will she use the Bloomberg terror test?]
An Army veteran in Wisconsin will be allowed to display an American flag until Memorial Day, but the symbol honoring his service in Iraq and Kosovo must come down next Tuesday, his wife told FoxNews.com.
Dawn Price, 27, of Oshkosh, Wis., said she received a call from officials at Midwest Realty Management early Wednesday indicating that she and her husband, Charlie, would be allowed to continue flying the American flag they’ve had in their window for months through the holiday weekend. The couple had previously been told they had to remove the flag by Saturday or face eviction due to a company policy that bans the display of flags, banners and political or religious materials. Continue reading “Wisconsin Veteran Must Remove Flag After Memorial Day, Wife Says” »
Despite the up-to-the-minute updates the Internet provides to readers, a larger percentage of Americans still trust their local newspapers more than online news sources.
Miss America no longer allowed to have a brain or opinion. A vote for Miss Liberty?
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Oscar Nunez was booed as he asked Miss Oklahoma, Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, her opinion of SB 1070. Her answered was enthusiastically received by the crowd.
“I’m a huge believer in states’ rights. I think that’s what’s so wonderful about America,” Woolard said. “So I think it’s perfectly fine for Arizona to create that law.”
Miss California Carrie Prejean lost her crown last year because she said that she did not believe in gay marriage.
A new body of libel law that has cropped up in 13 states stifles public debate on food-safety issues and threatens free-speech rights, said speakers at a Saturday panel discussion held at the First Amendment Center.
Members of the panel organized as part of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Freedom of Information Conference expressed their constitutional concerns with so-called food-disparagement, or veggie-libel, laws. These statutes allow farmers and agribusiness companies to sue individuals or groups who make allegedly false or disparaging comments about certain agricultural products. Continue reading “Veggie-libel laws chill free speech, say panelists” »
36 USC CHAPTER 1 – PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES
Sec. 119. National Day of Prayer
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The President shall issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals.
A Wisconsin federal judge on Thursday found the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional, saying it violates the First Amendment prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion.
The FCC is considering a so-called fairness doctrine in which conservative talk radio would be required to give up to fifty percent of their time to liberal “socialist” talk radio personalities (I’ve been told to limit my use of the “C” word). They already control the most powerful medias; Television and newspapers. Now they want total domination. They can’t do it by the old-fashioned capitalist method.
As you can hear in the following clip, Ed Schultz, the most outspoken proponent of the “fairness doctrine,” allows it only if you agree with him.
This administration intends to be candid about its errors, for as a wise man once said, “An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors. And we expect you to point them out when we miss them. Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed and no Republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law maker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment. The only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution. Not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasis the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply give the public what it wants, but to inform, to arouse, to reflect. To state our dangers and our opportunities. To indicate our crises and our choices. To lead, mold, educate, and sometimes even anger public opinion.—John F. Kennedy
May 22, 2012 1813 Richard Wagner 1931 Kenny Ball 1950 Bernie Taupin 1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1938 Susan Strasberg 1959 Morrissey 1907 Lord Laurence Olivier 1946 George Best 1970 Naomi Campbell
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