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The super-popular MySpace social networking site has been buffeted by a storm of negative press over the actions of several state attorneys general and their recent requests for sex offender information. The whole mess has unfolded like a bad soap opera -- and it must be particularly baffling for My...
After a brief showdown last week with a group of attorneys general, MySpace announced Monday that it will give the group the information it requested about registered sex offenders with profiles on the site. The attorneys general delivered a subpoena to the social networking site on the same day. W...
Allegations of illegal gambling, reports of online orgies, and even an active investigation in Europe of sexual abuse and misconduct seem to have overshadowed the tamer daily goings-on in the virtual world Second Life. Yet, just this week, it was the locale of an innovative job fair in which upstand...
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday lifted a preliminary injunction against Google preventing it from displaying thumbnail versions of sexually explicit images owned by adult site Perfect 10. The thumbnail images in question are miniature representations of Perfect 10 photos that are ...
MySpace won't comply with a request by eight state attorneys general for it to supply information about sex offenders registered on the site, the company announced Tuesday. Citing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, MySpace said it is prohibited by law from turning over the information withou...
Attorneys general in eight states announced Monday that they have sent a letter to MySpace requesting information about sex offenders using the site. Last December, MySpace said it had hired Sentinel Tech Holdings to check the site for registered sex offenders. That search uncovered thousands of off...
On the surface, the recent brouhaha with Digg and the HD DVD encryption key posted on the site seems to be about cracking the code to let people copy movies. While most people may think digital rights management is a pain in the butt and a waste of time in the effort to fight illegal copying for com...
The rules of the road were fairly clear to Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, until this week. Users generally were given free rein, except when they violated the site's terms of use -- for example, by linking to porn or racial hate sites, or to illegal downloads. Recent events have thrown Rose off his st...
In a case considered by many to be the first of its kind, the World Organization for Human Rights USA announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo and its subsidiaries for what it calls the Internet giant's complicity in human rights abuses and acts of torture in China. Plaintiffs in...
The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that a student's obscenity-filled MySpace post blasting a school principal is protected free speech. The student, who is identified as "A.B." in court documents, was originally placed on probation by a lower court judge in Indiana after she commented about her ...
Environmentalists were jubilant last week when the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency could regulate automobile emissions, and now a trial beginning Tuesday in Vermont could carry that momentum even further. Vermont is one of 10 other states that have chosen to follow Calif...
The Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency ruling has environmentalists jubilant, and if they are willing to admit it, Bush administration critics indulging in a bit of Schadenfreude. In a 5-4 decision, the Court found that the Environmental Protection Agency in fact does h...
It didn't take long for the U.S. EPA to react to the Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency ruling. The agency announced that California can move forward with its plans to reduce tailpipe emissions from cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles -- in effect, setting the...
Josh Wolf, an independent and freelance video blogger who refused to turn over his footage of a San Francisco street protest and testify about it to a grand jury, is now out of jail after spending a record-setting 226 days behind bars. Wolf spent more time in jail than any other journalist being hel...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate automobile emissions, contrary to the Bush administration's position. While rooted in a technicality -- a state's challenge to a federal agency's interpretation of the law -- the decision in Massachuse...
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