Kara Swisher in Media on September 2, 2011 at 6:16 am PT
It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.
Brent Kendall, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 27, 2011 at 9:08 am PT
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a California law banning the sale of violent videogames to minors is unconstitutional. The court, in a 7-2 vote, said the law violated First Amendment free-speech protections.
Jess Bravin, Senior Special Writer, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 3, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
The Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday over First Amendment protection for videogames, scrambling the justices’ typical ideological lineup in a conflict between a new medium’s free expression rights and government efforts to shield youth from bad influences.
Jess Bravin, Senior Special Writer, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 1, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Videogame designers at ZeniMax Media Inc.’s Bethesda Softworks destroyed a virtual U.S. Capitol, Jefferson Memorial and other landmarks in the Mature-rated “Fallout 3,” which depicts the ruins of post-apocalyptic Washington.
They didn’t bother to obliterate the U.S. Supreme Court. But in the real world, that’s where the $10.5 billion videogame industry faces its greatest threat.
Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 9, 2010 at 3:03 pm PT
On Wednesday, Craigslist pulled the “censored” label from its U.S. site — but didn’t restore its controversial adult services section.
Craigslist first put up a black box reading “censored” on its site last Friday, following a period of increased pressure from a group of attorneys general and anti-prostitution groups.
Ashby Jones, Editor, Law Blog, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 28, 2010 at 2:05 pm PT
On Monday morning, we did some looking into the legal issues surrounding WikiLeaks’ decision to unveil some 92,000 previously classified documents on the public, in connection with a handful of media outlets.
The bottom line, some First Amendment experts informed us: the government certainly had the right to go after and punish the person within the military who leaked the information.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 14, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Singer Justin Timberlake might say he’s bringing sexy back, but a new lawsuit alleges online pornography companies are using his song to bring sexy a little too far.
Eleven record labels including Warner Bros. Records and Atlantic Records have filed a copyright-infringement suit over the use of songs like Mr. Timberlake’s “SexyBack,” Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” and Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop (Til You Get Enough)” by adult Internet sites.
Kara Swisher in News on May 7, 2010 at 8:50 am PT
Last week, BoomTown was in Washington, D.C., my old stomping grounds for 15 years.
I miss a lot of things about living there, but most definitely not the poisonous political partisanship that you get sucked into from the minute you arrive.
But it’s almost a relief to be there rather than in Silicon Valley, given how increasingly hostile the atmosphere is getting as a range of companies wrestles over a range of issues, both key and trivial.
Kara Swisher in D8 on May 7, 2010 at 8:50 am PT
Last week, BoomTown was in Washington, D.C., my old stomping grounds for 15 years.
I miss a lot of things about living there, but most definitely not the poisonous political partisanship that you get sucked into from the minute you arrive.
But it’s almost a relief to be there rather than in Silicon Valley, given how increasingly hostile the atmosphere is getting as a range of companies wrestles over a range of issues, both key and trivial.
