White House Taps Twitter Legal Vet for Tech Advisor Post

Another tech appointment by the Obama administration.
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@TheSlammer: The Perils of Sending False Tweets

Tweets have had a positive effect on disseminating news. But could purposely tweeting fake news have legal consequences? Legal experts say it is possible.

Twitter Continues Uphill Trudge in Freedom-of-Tweets Legal Battle

The microblogging service appeals a federal judge’s ruling in an ongoing case that could affect how online speech is seen in the future.
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An Attack on WikiLeaks Is an Implicit Attack on Media

You don’t have to embrace Julian Assange as a kindred spirit to believe that what he did in publishing those cables falls under the protection of the First Amendment.

– Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, in an email to GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram in response to a post by Ingram entitled “First they came for WikiLeaks, then the New York Times”

Buzzkill: As Twitter Trumpets New Transparency Report, Judge Deals Company a Blow

On what was supposed to be a day of celebration, the microblogging service suffers a blow in an ongoing First Amendment case.
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Google Results Protected by First Amendment, Says Google-Commissioned Report

Do Google’s search results merit the same free-speech protection as articles in a newspaper?
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Tweet Free or Die: In Defense of Occupy Protester, Twitter Fights the Man

Twitter’s refusal to acquiesce to government requests for information says something about the company’s stance on privacy.
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CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It’s Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.

It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.
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High Court Strikes Down California Videogame Law

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.