Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom

[ryacko@gmail.com (Ryan Carboni)]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/how-lieberman-got-amazon-to-drop-wikileaks

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that advocates for Internet
freedom of speech by defending court cases, said the axing certainly
doesn't violate the First Amendment. But it is, according to senior staff
attorney Kevin Bankston, "disappointing."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/sheriffs-threats-against-credit-card-companies-violate-first-amendment

As we wrote about last month, we submitted an amicus brief to the Seventh
Circuit arguing that government officials such as Sheriff Dart may not use
their positions of authority to coerce companies with express or implied
threats of legal liability into taking actions that censor speechâ??whether
online or offline.




As we all know, escort services are important, not Wikileaks, whose founder
makes use of the CIA's escort service with expected results.
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