http://www.podtech.net/home/1963/are-blogs-killing-free-speech Wed, 23 May 2012 00:07:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://www.podtech.net/home/1963/are-blogs-killing-free-speech#comment-45588 PodTech.net: Blog » Blog Archive » How do bloggers deal with free speech, fair use, and the DMCA? Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:01:38 +0000 http://www.podtech.net/home/1963/are-blogs-killing-free-speech#comment-45588 [...] Nothing like a philosophical discussion about bloggers, the First Amendment, and free speech to get my mind going.  This podcast with Phil Leigh and David Wittenstein talks about a recent San Francisco case involving a blogger, a radio show, and ABC.  The gist is the blogger didn't like something being said, recorded it, posted it, and told the station's advertisers about it.  The blogger leans left and the show hosts lean right, that alone should be enough for sparks to fly but it goes beyond that.  So ABC doesn't like the content.  They send the blogger's ISP a little DMCA notice to yank said content.  The ISP, because of the way DMCA works figures better to yank it than to dicker about right or wrong. [...] […] Nothing like a philosophical discussion about bloggers, the First Amendment, and free speech to get my mind going.  This podcast with Phil Leigh and David Wittenstein talks about a recent San Francisco case involving a blogger, a radio show, and ABC.  The gist is the blogger didn’t like something being said, recorded it, posted it, and told the station’s advertisers about it.  The blogger leans left and the show hosts lean right, that alone should be enough for sparks to fly but it goes beyond that.  So ABC doesn’t like the content.  They send the blogger’s ISP a little DMCA notice to yank said content.  The ISP, because of the way DMCA works figures better to yank it than to dicker about right or wrong. […]

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