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Most non-Harvard bloggers don’t have to self-censor, but a posting that is a little too racy on these Harvard-sanctioned websites might force the Berkman Center to consider censorship...
...worried about that,” says John G. Palfrey ’94, executive director of the Berkman Center. According to Palfrey, certain types of rhetoric, like hate speech, could possibly get censored, a threat that most bloggers don’t have to face...
...precaution, the Berkman Center requires users to consent to an additional agreement: blogs that are tastelessly controversial might not be welcome on its servers...
...made Harvard among the dozens of hosts Diebold asked to pull the e-mails, citing the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act as grounds for its decision. Harvard, like most of the other servers, complied, forcing Slater to take the information off his site. But even though Slater complied, the Berkman Center supported his position that Diebold’s action was unfounded...
Today, Diebold continues to attract the Berkman Center’s attention. After Slater backed down, retreating to the pages of “A Copyfighter’s Musings,” some other bloggers took Diebold to court, charging the company was wrong to force servers to take down the information when the company knew it was not actually a copyright infringement. Their win last October has been hailed as a landmark case in digital free speech by organizations that include the Berkman Center, which still lists a blog item about the case on its main site...