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In November last year, he was briefly placed under house arrest to prevent him from attending a goodbye party he organized for his million-dollar studio in Shanghai after police ordered it demolished.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 11:45 AM | Add Comment

Sina Weibo is looking for more censors.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

The richer opportunity comes from California, where Proposition 8, banning gay marriage, has already been overturned by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/28/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

“It’s a North Carolina that exists but that I don’t recognize. There are two North Carolinas: the progressive cities and college towns, and places where there are no openly gay people.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/26/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Other studies show that Russians increasingly are calling for democratic values such as free speech and honest elections.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 3:30 PM | Add Comment

“I feel like it is a dream coming true, and I hope that it lasts.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

“It was one of the biggest violations of data protection laws that we had ever seen,” Mr. Caspar recently recalled about that long-sought viewing in late 2010. “We were very angry.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case concerning the government’s use of electronic surveillance to monitor the international communications of people suspected of having ties to terrorist groups.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

The sentence, handed down by Judge Richard M. Berman of Federal District Court in Manhattan, came after heroin and Suboxone was found in a cell Mr. Douglas was occupying

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the U.S. on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 12:45 PM | Add Comment

Subsequently she heard him utter what sounded like, “Get off, get off.” Then the call ended.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 4:29 AM | Add Comment

It should terrify anyone who cares about the future of the judiciary that advocacy, especially passionate advocacy

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/16/2012 6:15 AM | Add Comment

SPIEGEL ONLINE: NUDE PROTESTING EURO STYLE (WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES)

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/14/2012 12:30 PM | Add Comment

Occupy activists said they would dismantle the tents within hours and complained of police "aggression" and heavy handedness. "We're under siege," said activist Ronan McNern.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/13/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

“I wish every American could see the look of love those kids had in their eyes for you guys,” he said he told one host.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/8/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

Legalize marijuana! they shouted... as thousands of pro-weed enthusiasts demonstrated in Mexico City Saturday.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/6/2012 6:30 PM | Add Comment

The proposal, Mr. Cohen said, could be a face-saving solution for China, defusing a situation that threatens relations between the two countries.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/4/2012 12:46 PM | Add Comment

“Whatever the eventual outcome, it can only have a positive influence on China’s human rights situation.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Representative Joe L. Barton, the Texas Republican who is co-chairman of the House privacy caucus with Mr. Markey, did not respond to requests for comment.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Chen, who is blind, told CNN that after his escape his wife had been tied to a chair in the family home for two days by police who threatened to beat her to death.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 3:00 AM | Add Comment

Later, she told reporters: "I have always been cautiously optimistic about developments. In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 10:14 AM | Add Comment

At Gunpoint...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/2/2012 7:28 AM | Add Comment

In New York, Occupy Wall Street will join scores of labor organizations observing May 1, traditionally recognized as International Workers’ Day.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 4:30 PM | Add Comment

The most visceral reaction was elicited by a question that asked whether consumers would be willing to share “information about you with the stores that you visit, when you are just browsing.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Occupy-related events are planned in 115 cities throughout the U.S., from college towns such as Amherst, Massachusetts, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and Philadelphia.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 6:30 AM | Add Comment

“We call on the Chinese authorities to exercise utmost restraint in dealing with the matter, including avoiding harassment of his family members or any person associated with him.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 5:00 AM | Add Comment

Neither the White House nor the U.S. State Department would confirm that the U.S. was protecting Mr. Chen in Beijing.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

Chen’s timing is, I suspect, no coincidence: Next week, Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner, and a raft of other officials arrive in Beijing for the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 3:00 AM | Add Comment

The parliamentary elections in February had problems but were still good enough that the Egyptians see the new legislature as legitimate. The standard should be higher for the presidential election.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

The solicitor general used the term “mass incarceration” to describe a likely result of the Arizona statute.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 5:45 AM | Add Comment

The French Twitter community took its cue — and its numbers — from foreign news outlets, especially those in neighboring Switzerland and Belgium, which laughed off the French regulations as absurd and outdated

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

One answer is that there is no more reliable wedge issue sure to turn women against each other than the endlessly touchy subject of who is a better exemplar of modern womanhood...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

“If you had asked, in 1968, will we have the right to do with guns in 2012 what we can do now, no one, on either side, would have believed you,” David Keene said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/17/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Last year, he quit his job and moved to Mumbai.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 6:15 AM | Add Comment

As recently as a few years ago, this case probably would not have been noticed outside Florida, which has a long and bloody history of sacrificing black lives without consequence.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

When you sign up for a free Gmail account, you agree to allow a computer program to read all your e-mails.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 3:00 AM | Add Comment

“Finally, here we are, in the belly of the beast.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 8:45 PM | Add Comment

Violation of Dignity

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 4:30 PM | Add Comment

How the hooded sweatshirt evolved from a worker's utility to the outlaw at the center of the Trayvon Martin case

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/4/2012 8:15 PM | Add Comment

Procreation for the sake of the parents is ethically unacceptable. “To have a child in order to benefit oneself is a moral error,” Overall writes.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/3/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have publicly aligned themselves with the group and signed its pledge to work aggressively from the White House against same-sex marriage.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/3/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Are young women who think that they should be more like men willing themselves into a casual attitude toward sex that’s an awkward emotional fit?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/1/2012 12:31 PM | Add Comment

“It will be like those old-fashioned movie scenes where the reporters fight each other to get into the phone booth to report it in.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/26/2012 11:32 AM | Add Comment

In the letters, the representatives cite reports from The New York Times revealing that apps can access users’ photographs and address books.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/24/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

“Our strategy is to make this wind up in the United States Supreme Court and have this a settled issue for all time.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/24/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

That program, proposed early in the George W. Bush administration and partially shut down by Congress after an outcry, proposed fusing vast archives of electronic records — like travel records, credit card transactions, phone calls and more

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/23/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

“I will come to St. Petersburg to speak up for the gay community and to give strength and inspiration to anyone who is or feels oppressed,” the pop star said by e-mail late yesterday. “I’m a freedom fighter.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/22/2012 7:01 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Bloomberg said: “You want to get arrested? We’ll accommodate you.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/20/2012 6:14 PM | Add Comment

"We need to be more concrete and specific," he said. Critics say the Occupy movement lacks direction and clear demands.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/18/2012 7:45 AM | Add Comment

The case set off a debate about whether hate-crime statutes are the best way to deal with bullying.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/17/2012 7:05 AM | Add Comment

Still Selling Arms to Oppressive and Dictatorial Regimes...?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/16/2012 12:59 PM | Add Comment

Bain’s decision to enter China’s fast-growing surveillance industry raises questions about the direct role that American corporations play in outfitting authoritarian governments with technology

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/16/2012 7:44 AM | Add Comment

AMEN TO THAT: “I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Mr. Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/9/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Thousands of antigovernment protesters later gathered in a Moscow square to chant, “Russia without Putin.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/6/2012 10:12 AM | Add Comment

"Netanyahu knows that young American Jews are split, with the growing Orthodox community solidly in his corner, and the less observant and secular majority—a majority that is increasingly assimilated and uninterested in Jewish learning..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/5/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

But this time the Kremlin seemed better prepared to counter the accusations...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/5/2012 6:39 AM | Add Comment

In mid-February, The A.P. disclosed that police officers systematically monitored the Web sites and blogs of Muslim student groups at N.Y.U., Columbia, Yale, Rutgers and a dozen other colleges.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/4/2012 6:47 AM | Add Comment

Among the risk factors listed in Facebook’s filing for a public offering is the prospect of “adverse changes in our products that are mandated by legislation, regulatory authorities, or litigation, including settlements or consent decrees.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/27/2012 6:21 AM | Add Comment

“The material contains privileged information about the U.S. government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks,” the group said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/27/2012 6:19 AM | Add Comment

Firefox was one of the first to include a Do Not Track option.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/27/2012 5:59 AM | Add Comment

The First Amendment protects Mr. Alvarez’s right to say or write what he chooses, however deceitful or obnoxious, with only certain well-defined and narrow exceptions.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/23/2012 8:06 AM | Add Comment

It’s hard to see how the court’s conservative majority could contend that these expenditures pose no threat to American democracy.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/22/2012 6:37 AM | Add Comment

“Industry should redouble its efforts to focus on privacy issues, or they may face additional pressure in form of legislation from Congress,” he said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/21/2012 7:21 PM | Add Comment

Taser already has some 55,000 minicameras mounted on Tasers. But the camera is only triggered when the gun is drawn. It could do the same for police shootings.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/21/2012 6:09 AM | Add Comment

Wikileaks and Transparency

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/20/2012 6:25 AM | Add Comment

In debates that played out across the Arab world, though often ignored by the West, the questions of reconciling democracy and Islam raged from the 1990s on.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2012 6:17 AM | Add Comment

“If you put up your hand and say, ‘I’m going to investigate myself and here’s what I found’ and you’re not very open and full about it, then it looks like just another cover-up.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/12/2012 8:25 AM | Add Comment

The Assad family has run Syria as an Alawite mafia syndicate since 1970.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/8/2012 7:20 AM | Add Comment

The Kremlin is sensitive to the perception that Russia, Mr. Assad’s strongest foreign backer, had given the Syrian leader a green light to crush his political opponents.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/8/2012 7:12 AM | Add Comment

The European activists are hoping to use similar pressure to stop the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement , or ACTA, which is meant to clamp down on illegal commerce in copyrighted and trademarked goods.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/6/2012 8:26 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Schrems, a law student at the University of Vienna and a user of Facebook since 2008, has led a vocal campaign in Europe against what he maintains are Facebook’s illegal practices of collecting and marketing users’ personal data

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/6/2012 8:23 AM | Add Comment

A report by the Syrian state news agency, SANA, complained of “frenetic media campaigns against Syria disseminating false information about Syria Army shelling of civilians.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/5/2012 7:59 AM | Add Comment

“We are a snowball,” she said, “and we are rolling.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/5/2012 7:57 AM | Add Comment

The international hackers group known as Anonymous turned the tables on the F.B.I. by listening in on a conference call

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/4/2012 8:23 AM | Add Comment

It told everyone that civil disobedience is still as American as apple pie. Which is far more important than anything else they were trying to accomplish.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/3/2012 7:22 PM | Add Comment

“My fear is if there is another problem with a caucus you’re going to have more people say, ‘Why are we doing this?’ ”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/3/2012 6:15 AM | Add Comment

“Fifteen years ago, AOL was the Internet to most people, five years ago it was Google, now Facebook is the Internet.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/1/2012 6:58 AM | Add Comment

Occupy protests focused on Oakland after a former Marine and Iraq war veteran, Scott Olsen, was critically injured during a demonstration in October.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:35 AM | Add Comment

The chamber is all but powerless, and many anticipate that it will be eliminated when a new constitution is written.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:20 AM | Add Comment

Wikipedia co-founder talks victory in SOPA Showdown

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:59 PM | Add Comment

It does not sell personal information or share it externally except in the case of a valid court order, and it allows data liberation, which means Google users can export information to other services.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/25/2012 7:13 AM | Add Comment

Revolution in Egypt: Genesis

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/24/2012 8:33 PM | Add Comment

Igloos?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/24/2012 8:31 PM | Add Comment

In Citizens United, the conservative majority turned itself into a copper kings’ court

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/24/2012 6:51 AM | Add Comment

“The grass roots they can generate is, frankly, concerning,” Cary Sherman, chairman and chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, said of the Internet community.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/22/2012 7:16 AM | Add Comment

“I don’t think these ad campaigns help Internet users protect their privacy online. I think they’re made to justify certain business practices.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/20/2012 5:33 AM | Add Comment

"The question is, where has the United States betrayed Madison and Jefferson, betrayed these basic values on how you keep a democracy?"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/18/2012 7:34 PM | Add Comment

The legislation has jolted technology leaders, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, who are not accustomed to having their free-wheeling online world come under attack.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/18/2012 6:27 AM | Add Comment

“The control regime, if you call it that, is still trying to catch up,” he said. “If their approach is too stringent, they risk a blowback.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/17/2012 6:38 AM | Add Comment

Just a little Orwellian... Critics raise the alarm over U.S. police drone

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/14/2012 7:43 AM | Add Comment

“The regime wants to frighten us with these explosions, but we will continue our peaceful demonstrations until we see Bashar out of the country and out of power.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/7/2012 8:16 AM | Add Comment

“Privacy is an emerging tort in this country and there have only been a few cases that have gone to a full judgment.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/6/2012 6:49 AM | Add Comment

When we accept this idea, we are edging into the idea of Internet access as a civil right, because ensuring access is a policy made by the government.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/5/2012 6:38 AM | Add Comment

The government still has not let journalists travel to the country, as it had promised.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/30/2011 6:55 PM | Add Comment

"But in the absence of that symbolic step, the White House wants gay people to know that it stands with them."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/30/2011 6:43 PM | Add Comment

David D. Kirkpatrick reported from Cairo and J. David Goodman from New York.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/29/2011 6:56 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Diez, as it turned out, was one of more than 240,000 people in North Carolina with a permit to carry a concealed handgun.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/27/2011 7:54 AM | Add Comment

“We’re buying down risk,” Mr. Shapiro

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/23/2011 10:07 AM | Add Comment

“We got into jail for 15 days in one country and got out of it in another one” — and he predicted that the tide of history had turned against Mr. Putin and the Kremlin.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/22/2011 7:31 AM | Add Comment

Dr. Atlas, then the president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology, objected publicly to “anything that smacked of censorship.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/21/2011 6:50 AM | Add Comment

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