TECH.BLORGE.com » Blogosphere http://tech.blorge.com Top Technology news Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:33:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Twitter harassment declared free speech http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/12/16/twitter-harassment-declared-free-speech/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/12/16/twitter-harassment-declared-free-speech/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:03:01 +0000 John Lister http://tech.blorge.com/?p=41573 Twitter harassment declared free speechThe US constitution prevents legal constraints on the right to free speech. And according to one judge that right trumps the right not to be stalked online.

The federal judge has dismissed a case against California resident William Lawrence Cassidy, who was facing criminal charges [...] Related posts:

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  3. Groupon pulls controversial Super Bowl commercials
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  2. RIAA target everyone who has ever ripped a legally bought CD
  3. Sarah Palin is no crack ho – and redirecting could imply otherwise
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The story so far…

Michael [...] Related posts:

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Michael Arrington has left TechCrunch and AOL, possibly by mutual consent but the details are unlikely [...] Related posts:

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The TechCrunch debacle, which was already messy, has just got one hell [...] Related posts:

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According to Royal Pingdom, Tumblr has added 21 million blogs to its line-up over the past year, [...] Related posts:

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The company requires that users sign up with a [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/01/how-to-add-a-user-and-set-security-rights-in-wordpress/feed/ 2 Samsung laptops do NOT have key loggers http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/04/01/samsung-laptops-do-not-have-key-loggers/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/04/01/samsung-laptops-do-not-have-key-loggers/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:16:35 +0000 Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com/?p=36802 Crazy though the rumor may have sounded, it was spread far and wide on the Web these last few days that Samsung was shipping key logging software on their laptops. It is now an official false alarm. They are [...] Related posts:
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