APPLE VS. BLOGGERS

Welcome, MacSlash, MacSurfer, Stepwise and Michelle Malkin readers. Thanks for stopping by. There’s a sort of sideways follow-up to this post here; you might enjoy reading it, too. Back in January, Apple Computer filed a lawsuit against an entity…

Welcome, MacSlash, MacSurfer, Stepwise and Michelle Malkin readers. Thanks for stopping by. There’s a sort of sideways follow-up to this post here; you might enjoy reading it, too. Back in January, Apple Computer filed a lawsuit against an entity calle…

AP reported late last week:

As a staunch opponent of the journalistic privilege, I’m having a hard time getting nearly as worked up over this as he and she are. Nevertheless, I am quite offended by the notion that a blogger is not a “publisher, editor, reporter, or other person …

The First Ammendment cannot protect one group and not another. If it fails to protect all in the realm of conscience and communication then it becomes a farce.

The lawyers at Apple need to knock it off. They are giving Apple a bad name as they pursue Draconian measures to stifle "information" - or stop biting the hand that feeds them. At this rate it won' t take too long before folks see…

Earlier I wrote about the FEC attempting to regulate on-line speech. That article along with this one in which Apple sued a couple of bloggers has the government in the business of deciding who’s …

Do Bloggers have a responsibility to admit when they are wrong? This question is popping up in the wake of Friday’s arrests in the Armanious Family murder case in Jersey City NJ. The discussion revolves around trackbacks from and to Michelle Malkin’…

Repeat after me, the freedom of the press referenced in the U.S. Constitution is for the publishing of ideas and speech, not protecting professional journalism. Good, now I take exception to Michelle Malkin and others’ defense of Think Secret in…

Via: BBC News; Hat Tip: Cheese & Crackers.’Blogger fear’ in Apple leak case

Three blogs which published sensitive information about upcoming Apple products could be made to disclose where the leaks came from. A California judge said in a prelimina…

Michelle Malkin does it justice.

Apple Computers is making a case that bloggers are not protected by laws that protect journalists from being prosecuted for refusing to reveal their sources. Michelle Malkin has a post about it (with links to other blogs with commentary). The…

The back story Back in January, Apple Computer filed a lawsuit against an entity called The dePlume Organization LLC, operator