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Spanish Firm Abusing Copyright to Censor Spying Documents Has Ties to...
Amidst the furor over the drip-drip-drip of NSA spying allegations and rumors that Edward Snowden would seek asylum in Ecuador, Buzzfeed journalist Rosie Gray published a series of documents concerning...
View ArticleAres Rights Continues Questionable DMCA Censorship For Ecuador, Targets Chevron
Ares Rights, An Unproductive Exercise In Censorship By DMCA In June, I wrote about Ares Rights, a Spanish firm being used by Ecuador’s government to censor dissidents by way of meritless copyright...
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Yale’s Censorship of Student Reviews Rings Hollow Before Falling to Student...
In a series of moves unbecoming of an institution of higher learning, Yale this month effectively shuttered a student-designed website that allowed students to consider course evaluations when...
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Ares Rights Wants Ecuador Journalists To Stop Talking About Ares Rights’...
The Ares Rights saga is… bizarre. So, they’ve summoned Barbra Streisand to sing their song. After substantial attention to the firm’s abuse of copyright law to censor political dissidents (and, er,...
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Ares Rights Adopts Matroyshka Doll Approach To Censorious DMCA Takedown Notices
I wrote about Ares Rights last week, criticizing (again) their use of frivolous DMCA takedown notices to attempt to remove content criticizing their firm or government officials in Ecuador and...
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Ares Rights: Our Acts On Behalf of Ecuador Are Private
Ares Rights is a Spanish firm which claims to act on behalf of various officials of and entities connected to the government of Ecuador, invoking American copyright law to target critics of Ecuador (or...
View ArticleInglewood, California Sues YouTube Critic For Copyright Infringement Over Use...
This is a pretty stunning example of censorship by copyright — from a literal government. Joseph Teixeira is a critic of the mayor of inglewood, California, James Butts. As is common among people with...
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