Category: Internet Policy

Are Bloggers Journalists? (Apple v. Gizmodo)

By Mark Welch, May 6, 2010

Everyone seems to be criticizing the search of a blogger’s home-office by a law-enforcement task force, following the blogger’s report (at Gizmodo.com) about an iPhone prototype, which he said he’d purchased from someone who found it in a bar.

While I’d love to join the chorus criticizing both Apple and law enforcement, I simply don’t have enough information to make a reasonable decision about the conduct of various parties. Read more »

Law & Justice: Two New Developments

By Mark Welch, August 19, 2009

Two news reports today pertain to “Law and Justice,” and I think both demonstrate fundamentally absurd views of law and justice. Read more »

Republic.com (Cass Sunstein)

By Mark Welch, January 21, 2002

I apologize that this particular “Perspective” is long and complex, but I could find no other way to write it. I hope you’ll be patient enough to read this one through. Read more »

I Was Wrong (About this email virus)

By Mark Welch, December 11, 1999

(December 11, 1999) Oops.  I was wrong.

For years, I have received emails from friends and strangers alike, urgently warning me about email viruses that could be triggered simply by reading an email message. Read more »

What’s Wrong With The Communications Decency Act?

By Mark Welch, February 9, 1996

UPDATE June 12, 1996: The “Communications Decency Act” has been declared unconstitutional after a lengthy hearing and review. Read more »

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