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Mumbai Cyber Police Demand Personal Details of Modi Critics
Read more: Mumbai Cyber Police Demand Personal Details of Modi CriticsMumbai cyber police are demanding that U.S. tech companies hand over personal details of Internet users who insulted Indian PM Narendra Modi Last year, I blogged about efforts by Mumbai’s “cyber police crime division” to purge the Internet of doctored images of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Since that post, the censorious cyber squad has refocused its…
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Twitter is Censoring Criticism of Turkish President Erdoğan
Read more: Twitter is Censoring Criticism of Turkish President ErdoğanTwitter deletes ‘insulting’ tweets/accounts by critics of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following court order Since 2016, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sued, arrested, and detained thousands of opposition journalists, academics, civil servants, and other critics of his government’s increasingly authoritarian policies. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (source) Online, Erdoğan’s efforts to control his public image have been equally…
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Why Did This Florida Takedown Lawyer Try to Suppress Negative Reviews for InventHelp?
Read more: Why Did This Florida Takedown Lawyer Try to Suppress Negative Reviews for InventHelp?InventHelp is currently being sued for allegedly scamming aspiring inventors. Two years ago, Florida takedown lawyer Zachary Sloan tried to suppress those allegations InventHelp is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that claims to help aspiring inventors patent and market their inventions. From its inception in 1984, InventHelp has cultivated a slick image. For example, since 2014…
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Fake News Ban Targets Political Speech, Sexual Content
Read more: Fake News Ban Targets Political Speech, Sexual ContentGermany’s recent fake news ban is already being abused by would-be censors The Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG) law, which came into force in October, requires social media websites to remove “fake news” and “hate speech” or risk fines of up to 50 million euros (40 million pounds). While intended to stop the spread of disinformation and hateful…
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The Takedown Conspiracy
Read more: The Takedown ConspiracyArticles by WashPost, Techdirt about fake takedown requests targeted by anonymous defamation takedown request Last year, a Washington Post investigation by First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh (of the Volokh Conspiracy, now published at Reason.com) exposed how some people were using forged court orders to force Google to delist links. Via “Apparent forged court order for…
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NBT Films: Debunked Again
Read more: NBT Films: Debunked AgainTechdirt reports my post about debunked YouTuber’s copyright complaint against fact-checking website Snopes source Via “Snopes Debunks Fake YouTube Video; Video’s Creator Responds With A Bogus DMCA Notice” by Tim Cushing, Techdirt, December 6, 2017: from the pressing-the-shut-up-button dept Nothing But the Truth Films (NBT) has a credibility problem. Oh, the irony, I would normally…
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Bad Fan Fiction
Read more: Bad Fan FictionMichael Jackson’s estate targets erotic fan fiction with series of copyright complaints According to the Lumen Database, Jackson’s estate recently hired self-proclaimed “Web Sheriff,” British IP lawyer John Giacobbi, to scrub a blogger’s erotic fan fiction about the late singer. John Giacobbi (source) The targeted blog, MJ Fan Fictions, includes “semi-erotic adventures” about Jackson and…
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Info-Warring (Part II)
Read more: Info-Warring (Part II)International Business Times files copyright complaint against conspiracy website InfoWars In February, I blogged about a series of DMCA copyright complaints filed against U.S. conspiracy website InfoWars. The complaints by pro-gun news website AmmoLand, Danish-run news website nsnbc international, plus a third accusation of content scraping by Cincinnati survivalist website On Point Preparedness, claimed that InfoWars republished their content without…
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The Ghost of Trump U.
Read more: The Ghost of Trump U.Google delists marketer’s analysis of Trump University sales letter after friend of deceased Donald Trump ghostwriter files copyright claim Trump University, founded in 2004 by its presidential namesake, was an unaccredited real estate programme aimed at budding investors. Before and after its closure in 2010, the New York-based programme faced repeated allegations of illegal business…
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Boing Boinged
Read more: Boing BoingedBoing Boing cites my blog post about Medicare scammer’s takedown request source Earlier this month, I blogged about multiple copyright takedown requests sent by one or more Medicare scammers, claiming copyright of their names, life stories, and criminal records, in an effort to convince Google to delist reports of their criminal convictions from the U.S.…
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