Since the Senate approved the new FISA bill, the blogosphere has been in a state of upheaval, declaring it an infringement on the Bill of Rights. NPR recently reported that liberal and conservative bloggers have joined forces to...

Congress is considering new legislation to prevent US companies from assisting the censorship and surveillance regimes of so-called Internet-Restricting Countries (IRCs): China, Iran, and so forth. On balance, the Global Online Freedom Act would probably help companies make smarter decisions...

An increasing number of American companies are being asked to obey censorship and surveillance laws in China that run contrary to free speech and privacy guarantees in the United States. These companies have been asked to monitor Internet users' activities, to give...

Free wireless broadband has been a goal of academics, activists, and politicians for years, and M2Z, a new start-up led by former FCC official John Muleta might give it to them. Unfortunately, it will not be the broadband...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission released a report , addressing their efforts to build broadband access. So far, recent efforts have centered around auctioning off portions of the wireless spectrum, and some with the requirement that the...

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on June 10th an “unprecedented deal” with Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Sprint to “block major sources of child pornography.” The political logic of this action is abundantly clear, though it will...

Last Friday, a California court ordered that domain name registrar Dynadot remove DNS information that routes Internet users to wikileaks.org, a site that provides a place for people to leak documents or blow whistles on corporations or governments. Our...

On January 30th, the Global Internet Freedom Task Force (GIFT) hosted its first conference on Global Internet Freedom. State Department officials heard appeals from Microsoft, Yahoo and Google -- and inputs from research and human rights organizations -- on...

On the second day of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), U.S. technology companies came under fire for selling products to China that have facilitated the government's censorship of the Internet and its crackdown on dissidents. While U.S. companies...

The Daily Herald reports that 14 plaintiffs sued Utah over its filtering law. The law requires ISPs to filter, at no additional charge, sites listed as inappropriate for minors by the state when a customer requests the filtering. Similar laws have...