Freedom to Differ: International Law

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> International Law Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

International Law

Freedom to Differ

A blog that speaks freely about legal issues facing the media and the internet. It mainly covers issues relating to the legal regulation of the internet and the media, but at times Constitutional law issues and politics are discussed. While the focus is on Australia, developments in other nations around the world are considered as well.

Post Frequency: 25.4/day

Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 09:11:39

Terms of endorsement

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart at his best:

Taking back the internet

Posted on March 10, 2008
Slashdot highlights what sounds like a fascinating lecture from Professor Jonathan Zittrain: uctpjac writes "Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford and renowned cyberlaw scholar, gave a lecture explaining that the Internet has to be taken out of the hands of the anarchists, the libertarians, and the...

Feeling angry?

Posted on March 10, 2008
Mashable lists 24+ sites where you can vent you anger: Feeling angry? Sad? Stressed? Squeeze ball not working? Or just getting bored? The world wide web offers its own set of places where you can vent your anger. Here is a look at 24+ such sites. Some of them are...

FCC and the chilling effect

Posted on March 09, 2008
TV Week suggests that in the US the FCC is having a chilling effect on television shows: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin may be winning the fight he has picked with TV networks that air racy programming. Mr. Martin?s agency lost the last major indecency court case in federal...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Where's Waldo?

Posted on March 09, 2008
College Humor presents The Waldo Ultimatum:

I'm back ...

Posted on March 09, 2008
After my weekend virtual mini-break (see here) I am now back in the world of technology. I must say that I found it not only quite easy to survive with no computer, no internet, no email, no Twitter, no Facebook, no blogging and even no television, but I really enjoyed...

Are you friends with your parents?

Posted on March 09, 2008
The Washington Post describes a dilemma I am yet to face: When Matt Florian signed onto his Facebook account recently to check the status of his 400-plus friends, he had a friend request. It was from his dad. The junior at Sherwood High School in Montgomery County didn't panic...

Broken email

Posted on March 09, 2008
The Observer looks at whether email is a broken business tool: The deluge of email flooding workers' inboxes every day has become so overwhelming that it is now a 'broken business tool' in urgent need of fixing, companies have been warned. The average employee spends an estimated 90 minutes to...

Jimmy Kimmel talks about those videos

Posted on March 09, 2008
Over the past few weeks I've blogged about the hysterically funny hit viral video where Sarah Silverman confesses to her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel that she is fucking Matt Damon (see here) and Jimmy Kimmel's equally funny response (see here), and now Jimmy Kimmel talks about both videos for Newsweek: NEWSWEEK:...

My virtual mini-break starts now!

Posted on March 07, 2008
On Monday I linked to an article in the New York Times where Mark Bittman, a self-confessed techno-addict, wrote about the virtues in taking a "virtual break": In short, my name is Mark, and I?m a techno-addict. But ... I decided to do something about it...

Telstra loses court challenge to ACCC

Posted on March 06, 2008
The High Court today handed down a rare unanimous joint judgment dismissing Telstra's constitutional challenge to the ACCC. Read the judgment here. This is how The Australian summarised the decision: THE High Court of Australia today threw out Telstra's constitutional challenge against the competition watchdog's powers to set prices for...

Hillary Guy

Posted on March 06, 2008
Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist, Nick Anderson, has made a hilarious spoof of the Obama Girl phenomenon:

More on Change Congress

Posted on March 06, 2008
Information Week gives us an update on Larry Lessig's Change Congress project: Government-reform advocates plan in two weeks to launch a system for members of Congress to pledge to reduce the role of money in government, Lawrence Lessig said. The Change Congress project will ask members of Congress to make...

Still don't get Twitter?

Posted on March 06, 2008
I quite frequently get feedback from people "what is Twitter?". Now Common Craft have put together a video explaining Twitter in plain English:

Generation Facebook's skills are apparently being wasted at work

Posted on March 06, 2008
ZD News reports that employers are under-utilising the skills of the Generation Facebook: The tech savvy of "Generation Facebook" is going down the drain at work, new research has found. People who have left school in the past three years have strong confidence in their IT skills, but the organizations...

iPods = crime?

Posted on March 06, 2008
Wired covers a report that suggests a crime wave in the US might be caused by iPods: It's easy to see why iPods would be alluring targets for criminals: The music players are valuable and easy to resell, and people absorbed in their personal soundtracks can be vulnerably oblivious to...

Twitter: "an idiot and spam-free zone"

Posted on March 06, 2008
The Guardian asks why there are no spam or trolls on Twitter: Because it's rather like an RSS feed - you choose to read it - and nobody so far has worked out how to spam a feed. Twitter, for those not in the know, is a collection of microblogs...

Some new blogs

Posted on March 05, 2008
This will probably be the only post for today as tonight I am trying to finalise the set up of a new blog focusing on Copyright in the Digital Age (which will be both a teaching and public blog). But while I'm blogging about new blogs, check out Surviving Law...

Are you a jerk?

Posted on March 04, 2008
PC World introduces us to the jerks of the web: Scammers, stalkers, online antagonists ready to pick a fight, folks who are just plain mean--what is it about the Web that turns people into jerks? One expert says the anonymity of the Web makes everyone behave as if they were...

Become an IP donor

Posted on March 04, 2008
Free Art & Technology suggest we should become intellectual property donors: Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others...

Mark Holden leaves Australian Idol

Posted on March 04, 2008
TV Tonight reports that Mark Holden will not be involved in Australian Idol this year. Read more here.

Clinton tries to be funny ... again

Posted on March 04, 2008
From The Huffington Post: Hillary Clinton appeared (via satellite from Texas) on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the eve of the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries. The segment began on a humorous note before turning to campaign themes. Stewart opened the interview by saying that "this election is...

I always knew blogging was good for me

Posted on March 04, 2008
For those of you who worry about how much time I spend blogging or online generally, take comfort in this piece of news: A new study has found Bloggers are better adjusted and live healthier, happier social lives. The research, from Swinburne University of Technology found that ?people felt they...

That's a lot of splogs

Posted on March 04, 2008
Wordpress suggests that one third of blogs are splogs: Would you believe that about a third of blogs are spam? At least those are the numbers for Wordpress, according to Matt Mullenweg, the blogging platform?s founder. But think about how many spam blogs there are out there...

Maybe I need a virtual break too ...

Posted on March 03, 2008
Mark Bittman's article in the New York Times, " I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really.", made me think perhaps I was also in need of a virtual break: I TOOK a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off...

The death of email?

Posted on March 03, 2008
At the Future of Web Apps Conference in Miami, Caroline McCarthy wonders about the future of email: The way people have been talking about e-mail at the Future of Web Apps conference, you'd think it were a cell phone carrier or a domestic airline. It's antiquated, it's backward, and everybody...

A new way to be dumped?

Posted on March 03, 2008
Valleywag reports on what may be a world first: This is surely a first: Breaking up with a girlfriend via Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales, the creator of the world's best collection of Outkast lyrics, has announced in a statement on the website that he's no longer seeing Rachel Marsden, the saucy...

No free speech in spam

Posted on March 03, 2008
Ars Technica reports on a significant decision on free speech and spam from Virginia: Virginia's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming. The spammer will serve nine years in prison for sending what authorities believe to be millions of messages over a two-month period in...

Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live

Posted on March 02, 2008
The Huffington Post summarises the opening to this week's Saturday Night Live: Saturday Night Live opened tonight with a fake presidential debate hosted by mock Brian Williams and Tim Russert. Williams and Russert were bored by healthcare and were overly nice to Obama, while Amy Poehler, as Hillary Clinton, played...

JuicyCampus.com ... only in America

Posted on March 02, 2008
The Washington Post's Marc Fisher describes an entry about a University of Virginia (U-Va.) student on JuicyCampus.com, a website that urges college students to "give us the juice" anonymously: [it] names [her] and says she "will sleep with any guy." This sort of post has given JuicyCampus -- which features...

Previous | Next

Related Law Bulletins

Scalia Opens Religious Freedom Conference
Justice Antonin Scalia gave the keynote address at a conference on...

Ads Ask New Hampshire Candidates For Religious Freedom Positions
A coalition of groups advocating church-state separation is runnin...