Making Sense of the Wikileaks Fiasco: Prior Restraints in the Internet Age

rtabasky — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:39:39 -0500

Citizen Media Law Project Director David Ardia is quoted in today's New York Times, saying that a judge's order to shutdown the WikiLeaks website by removing its DNS record, “is clearly not constitutional...There is no justification under the First Amendment for shutting down an entire Web site.” You can read developments and keep up on this story via the Citizen Media L

Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma

swalkerman — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:36:17 -0500

This bulletin examines the role of information technology, citizen journalists, and bloggers in Burma and presents a technical analysis of the abrupt shutdown of Internet connectivity by the Burmese government on September 29, 2007, following its violent crackdown on protesters there. Completely cutting international Internet links is rare. Nepal, which severed all international Internet connections when the King declared martial law in February 2005, is the only other state to take such drastic action. Although extreme, the measures taken by the

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Making Sense of the Wikileaks Fiasco: Prior Restraints in the Internet Age

Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma