10.12.04

Volokh on Indymedia server seizure

Posted in legal at 11:53 am by jwales

First Amendment expert and email acquaintance of mine, [[Eugene Volokh]] is blogging about the Indymedia server seizure situation. As usual for Volokh, he has a detailed and insightful look at the real legal issues here.

See also: this post by [[Orin Kerr]], and this followup by Volokh.

[Update: our article about Volokh is a pretty disappointing stub. ]

Joi Ito joining ICANN board

Posted in General, legal at 11:15 am by jwales

Wikipedian [[user:Joi|Joichi Ito]] ([[Joi Ito|article]]) will be joining the board of [[ICANN]] in December. Congrats, Joi! I predict this to be a thankless but extremely important task. It’s great to see one of the good guys volunteer to do this.