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ACLU program covers Internet issues
March 30, 2008
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The Douglas County chapter of the ACLU will present "Government and Corporate Surveillance on the Internet," a panel discussion on free speech and press, at 7 p.m. April 9 in the auditorium of Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.
The panel will include Bill Raney, first amendment attorney and president of the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri; Dennis Anderson, managing editor of the Lawrence Journal-World; Rick Musser, journalism professor at Kansas University; and Joel Mathis, blue moderator at redblueamerica.com. Dan Winter, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri, will moderate the talk.
The discussion will explore such issues as blogs, e-mail privacy, data mining by the government and the private sector, and other possible threats to civil liberties in the cyber age. It is free and open to the public.
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30 March 2008
at 11:17 a.m.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
A blog is a “threat to civil liberty?”
Why are all you good folks threatening my civil liberty?
31 March 2008
at 7:45 p.m.
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foodboy (Anonymous) says…
If you saw the recent article about the government trying to shut down blogs, because they didn't like the content you might be concerned about free speech.