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From Donald Morris from Dozier Internet Law in Virginia humans can learn a bit about freedom of speech in the USA in theory and practice. Donald Morris is a typical lawyer, whose firm is already well known for even prohibiting website visitors to view the html of the page and put for his client DirectBuy all his best together to threaten Justin Leonard from infomercialscam.com to bring out all the critical information about DirectBuy from people feeling fooled. Probably Donald Morris is a good lawyer and so he knows very well, that his ideas of free speech is not the same like it is written in the first amendment of the constituion of the USA.

So the idea of Donald Morris to forbid publishing his cease and desist letter with copyright arguments is easy to understand. This might bring up the question whether blackmail can be copyrighted and publishing of blackmail can be made illegal by the blackmailer in this way. Of course, for his funny letter, Donald Morris was to receive a catty answer (pdf).

The end of the lawyers work: the internet community in the whole world is reading his funny letter (pdf) and laughing about the scams of DirectBuy and their lawyer. As a cat I say thank you to Donald Morris and his clients from DirectBuy for this fine demonstration of the Streisand effect and recommend them to send more letters for further prove of the Streisand effect which is the best guarantee to the first amendment.

Many bloggers put their contents under a restictive license. This article will show, why it is a good idea to remove copyright protection from blog contents to make censorship attacks unattractive for the censors.

In the western hemisphere open censorship is for reasons of national constitutions and problems with article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights somehow problematic. So governments and courts following government orders invent new ideas to get information out of the internet and out of the world. Some, like the British government did it with David Shayler or like US judge T.S. Ellis did it with Khaled El-Masri, try it’s best to classify all information on government misconduct as state secrets.

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