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Defense and Celebration of the Online Commonwealth - The Center for Democracy & Technology invites you to join in celebrating the upcoming One Web Day (Sept. 22) by reading and signing the document: A Call to Defense and Celebration of the Online Commonwealth. This document, developed in collaboration with our new CDT Fellows, articulates core values that have enabled the Internet to prosper and highlights our shared duty to keep it open, innovative and free. September 10, 2009
Share this articleCourt Corrects Section 230 Opinion on Recommendation of CDT and Others - At the urging of CDT, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an "amended" decision in the Barnes v. Yahoo! case, correcting two serious errors that had been included in the court's initial decision. CDT and others had filed a "friend of the court" brief urging the court to delete language that limited service providers' ability to be protected by "Section 230," a provision which enhances free speech online by protecting service providers from liability for content posted by their users. The court made the exact changes that both Yahoo! (as a party) and CDT, Public Citizen, and others that had signed onto the original brief had urged. June 24, 2009
Share this articleCDT Tells FCC To Include Openness, Privacy in Broadband Plan - In comments submitted to the FCC on Monday, CDT stressed that a national broadband plan should include a commitment to maintain and indeed strengthen the legal and policy framework that has enabled the Internet to become such a dynamic and innovative medium. CDT also recommended that the plan feature further measures to safeguard the Internet's open character, promote online privacy, harness broadband to achieve greater transparency in government, and more. June 09, 2009
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