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<< 34.6 Million in Poverty | Main | Lieberman Right on Clark >> September 26, 2003Jackboots in CyberspaceImagine if without a warrant, a political organization's office could be stormed, documents confiscated, private contact lists taken, and the organization barred from publishing information. That's not Ashcroft's wet dream. That's life for groups with information on the web, given the rights of corporations under the DMCA to force proceedings to strip groups of domain names and other web property without even a court order. The newest victim is BlackBoxVoting.org, which has been exposing the Diebold voting machine scandal. Luckily, it's hard to shut people down completely in cyberspace, so go to BlackBoxVoting.com for updates. For more see Siva Vaidhyanathan' Weblog. Posted by Nathan at September 26, 2003 04:12 PM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsOddly enough, the "news" section of Diebold's website doesn't say anything about this burgeoning controversy (although they do have a press release from August trashing one of the authors of a study that claimed to show how susceptible their machines were to hacking). You'd think they'd want to put their spin on the situation out there. Maybe they figure that as long as it stays in the blogosphere, they won't risk the chance of the mainstream media's noticing what's going on by putting out a press release. Posted by: J. J. at September 26, 2003 05:45 PM About your first para, I think Kucinich's "Prayer for America" should be on everyone's viewing list http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/03.28I.Kucinich.Prayer.htm Posted by: clonal antibody at September 27, 2003 01:20 PM An article on the John Hopkins study of Diebold touchpad software has already made a number of newspapers including the NYTimes. The work of BlackBoxVoting is far more extensive and uncovers a host of far more serious problems (including some potential to rig a national election from a remote location). Diebold is playing a very dangerous game here however for two reasons. First, by attacking BlackBoxVoting, they are merely publicizing them, and BlackBoxVoting wants that. Second, BlackBoxVoting actually wants Diebold to sue them (so that they can conduct discovery). Diebold knows this, but by pressuring BlackBoxVoting, they may be backing themselves into that very corner. Posted by: Benedict@Large at September 28, 2003 12:30 PM Second, BlackBoxVoting actually wants Diebold to sue them (so that they can conduct discovery). Diebold knows this, but by pressuring BlackBoxVoting, they may be backing themselves into that very corner. That gets us back to Nathan's point about the DMCA. Since Diebold can get BlackBox's ISP to pull the "infringing" link, BlackBox can't call Diebold's bluff and keep the links up until Diebold sues them. However, I believe the DMCA does contain some procedures for trying to resolve situations like this, where the person posting the material gets to respond to the ISP after someone else has written to the ISP claming copyright infringement. Also, I imagine that because of Diebold's action in forcing the link to come down, BlackBox could commence a declaratory judgment action. Posted by: J. J. at September 29, 2003 02:55 PM Post a comment
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