Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes with his take on a recent court decision about the rights of online commenters. "Although a court has ruled that the police can subpoena the identities of users who posted comments in a newspaper's... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Wed, May 20 2009
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| 13 Feb 09 |
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Ontario Court Wrong About IP Addresses, Too » slashdot Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton comments on a breaking news story out of the Canadian courts: "An Ontario Superior Court Justice has ruled that Canadian police can obtain the identities of Internet users without a warrant, writing that... |
| 01 Oct 08 |
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Virginia High Court Wrong About IP Addresses » slashdot Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state's anti-spam law, which prohibits the sending of bulk e-mail using falsified or forged headers, violates the First Amendment because it also applies... |
| 16 Mar 09 |
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Service Via Facebook Shouldn't Always "Count" » slashdot Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A New Zealand court has allowed a plaintiff to serve papers on a defendant via Facebook, following a similar ruling from an Australian court last year. But as these rulings do not necessarily mean, as... |
| 22 Sep 08 |
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Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 » slashdot Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A federal judge has ruled that a school district didn't violate a student's free speech rights when it suspended her for a parody MySpace page she created calling her principal a sex addict who "hits... |
| 29 Apr 09 |
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Bandwidth Fines Bad, But Not Net Neutrality Issue » slashdot Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes with his take on the recent Time Warner Cable fiasco: "Net Neutrality crusaders at FreePress.net recently called attention to Time Warner's plan (later rescinded) to impose fines on users for going... |
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