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  1. “Congress and the courts have largely heeded this argument, too. Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act — the law that matters most for speech on the Web — holds that online service providers aren’t responsible for offensive content if they’ve tried to block a little of it. In other words, if you edit some of the comments on your site, you’re not liable for the one with a harmful lie that you didn’t edit, as a newspaper would be if it published a libelous letter to the editor.”

    www.nytimes.com
    meljohnso

  2. ““This isn’t meant to be sarcastic,” he said, “but these students are going to law school and they need to learn to read the fine print.””

    www.nytimes.com
    baetsie

  3. “The very human tendency to overestimate one’s talents is part of the problem. Like the children of Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegon, all incoming 1L’s seem to believe that they are above average.”

    www.nytimes.com
    baetsie

  4. “Under the doctrine of command responsibility, when an organization involved in warfare fails to punish or discipline those who engage in criminal conduct, criminal liability passes to the senior officers of that organization. That’s a point for Leon Panetta and his senior deputies to ponder carefully. It is not just their reputations that are in jeopardy.”

    harpers.org
    protoslacker

  5. “Indeed, by implication, there are no unique religious demands that society is obligated to recognize, making Smith one more marker on the road to Charles Taylor’s secular age. One can praise it on the grounds that it protects religious believers and non-believers equally, but insofar as it establishes that religion is not unique, America has lost a protected space where the claims of the secular state could be resisted.”

    www.religiondispatches.org
    protoslacker

  6. “That’s what makes Twitter’s move so important. It briefly carried the torch for its users during that crucial period when, because of the gag order, its users couldn’t carry it themselves. The company’s action in asking for the gag order to be overturned sets a new precedent that we can only hope that other companies begin to follow.”

    www.wired.com
    Zelnox

  7. “the iron law of being working class, which is that once you're in there, it's almost impossible to get out.”

    www.guardian.co.uk
    baetsie

  8. “the iron law of being middle class: once you're in there, it's almost impossible to fall out”

    www.guardian.co.uk
    baetsie

  9. “A federal agency has declared Facebook posts are legally protected speech, even for employees who write negative things about their employers.”

    mashable.com
    ch00ey