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...shouldn't be spending taxpayer dollars on this," says John Richo, Culver City's information-technology director. Users must agree to "limited" Internet access and waive First Amendment claims arising from the city's decision to block sites. Civil-liberties groups are worried that governments may still be practicing content-based discrimination, a First Amendment violation, since filters often overreach and block perfectly legal material. "I think the Supreme Court would look skeptically at this approach," says John Morris, staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology...
...Internet morphs from a place to consume into a place to contribute content, our engagement with and understanding of the world come more and more from people like you. Participants in the digital democracy cheered our Person of the Year choice--themselves--while others thought it overly inclusive...
...period is over before making this decision. But Stephen Sundlof, director of the agency's Center for Veterinary Medicine, says: "If we felt that the food introduced substances that were harmful to people, labeling would be in order. But assuming that the draft risk assessment is not altered in content, which notes that the science shows that the food from these animals is not different materially from the food from other animals, we would not require labeling...
...seek more input from the council, Councillor Craig E. Kelley said, “I don’t think so.” “To be honest, I hadn’t even thought about it,” Kelley said. Davis said she is similarly content with the council’s involvement. “I think we’ve weighed in as we were asked to weigh in, and I think that’s appropriate,” she said in an interview. But other councillors expressed strong views on the right...
Before the national media outcry about its content, O.J. Simpson’s new book “If I Did It” was scheduled to hit shelves on Nov. 30, following a two-part interview on Fox News. Judith Regan, the publisher of “If I Did It,” marketed the book as Mr. Simpson’s hypothetical confession for the 1995 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. But on Nov. 20, Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., which owns ReganBooks, cancelled its publication. And on Dec. 15, Judith Regan...