In ten years with the Boy Scouts, Darrell Lambert has held almost every leadership position in his Port Orchard troop. He’s earned 37 merit badges and the coveted Eagle award. He exemplifies the Scouts’ standards in every way but one: He doesn’t believe in a god
A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled that the government cannot revoke doctors’ prescription licenses for recommending marijuana to sick patients
Jackie Ballard, the new director general of Britain’s leading animal welfare charity — the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — wants the World Trade Organisation to start taking animal rights seriously
Anti-World Trade Organisation activists say they have been vindicated by an official investigation into two protest web sites. The Australian Broadcasting Authority has given the Melbourne Indymedia and S11 sites the all-clear after complaints they were inciting violence against police
Men accused of date rape
will have to prove that they made efforts to ensure their sexual partners gave agreement under laws being considered by the UK Government
Google has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. Absent from Google’s French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to white supremacy, according to a new report from Harvard University’s Berkman Centre. Also banned is Jesus-is-lord.com, a fundamentalist Christian site that is adamantly opposed to abortion
The head of the National Security Agency said last week that Congress might want to aim the most powerful surveillance system in the world at American citizens. Lieutenant General Michael Hayden said the ongoing terrorist threat means America needs to debate where to draw the line between foreign and domestic surveillance. Currently the NSA is prohibited from spying domestically
A federal judge ruled that Southwest Airlines does not have to revamp its Web site to make it more accessible to the blind
Conservative peers and bishops joined forces in the Lords last night to block Government plans to allow unmarried, homosexual and lesbian couples to adopt children
Government worker Ian Jarman is unhappy that he has to wear a tie to work — so he is accusing his management of sex discrimination
Cyber-stalkers from around the world could be jailed for up to 10 years in Victoria under Australia’s first legislation policing internet intimidation. Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls said the Crimes Act definition of stalking would be extended to cover e-mail communication, the manipulation of another person’s computer and the publishing of offensive material on the internet
Western hackers are developing programs to defeat the Internet censorship barriers of repressive countries overseas — and you can take part in the effort
The entertainment industry is facing a formidable obstacle in pursuing Napster’s major successor, KaZaA: geography
A single number for e-mail addresses, phone number and web sites is being considered in Australia, despite fears the technology could become a de facto identification number
In a case of speedy justice a jury today ruled that Neil Gaiman was in the right on all 9 counts in the case he brought against Todd McFarlane. This case revolved around ownership stakes for Medieval Spawn, Angela, Cagliostro, and further contracts involving the rights to Miracle Man
The Australian Government has refused to allow Electronic Frontiers Australia to find out which web sites have been banned under the federal web censorship laws introduced in 2000. Government spokespeople generally insist that they’re all hardcore pedophilia
etc, but the issue of which web sites are banned has become more interesting since the NSW Police Minister called for web sites run by WTO protestors to be shut down. So in order to ward off continuing inquiries from the likes of EFA, the Government is introducing changes to FOI laws
On 9 October the US Supreme Court will hear the case of Eldred vs Ashcroft. It’s a challenge to the controversial 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which lengthened copyright terms by 20 years, stretching them to 70 years after an artist’s death
The Washington Post threatened an anti-abortion activist with legal action for registering a similar domain name and snatching e-mail messages intended for reporters
Scholars from MIT, the University of California in LA, and the University of London have worked together to oppose laws restricting children from playing violent video games. The battle is currently taking place in the US Court of Appeals and the case seems to hold a decent amount of merit — via Slashdot
For two weeks, volunteers have kept a round-the-clock vigil at the no-kill Animal Shelter of North County. They’re afraid that if they leave, the city of Arlington will lock them out
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