Parker Higgins is an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in issues at the intersection of freedom of speech and copyright, trademark, and patent law. He talks about EFF role on the legal front of battles to protect online rights, including the Bills Anonymous opposed in OpBlackout, ACTA, SOPA and PIPA. Parker explains the risks of censorship and broad over reach of the Blacklist Bills hiding behind the the deceptive names of Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP. We are introduced to Aarons Law, inspired by the loss of Aaron Swartz who personifies the cost of judicial abuses for digital activists championing Internet freedoms.
Andy Lee Roth - Project Censored - Shameful GITMO Anniversary 11
Since 1976 Project Censored has done pioneering research and work with independent media and investigative journalists. Over three decades Project Censored (…)
11 January 2013
Alexa O’Brien - Manning Trial Week 8 - State Department/Wikileaks harm
Alexa updates the week’s events in the courtroom which was dominated by testimony from the State Department regarding the impact of the leaks. Government (…)
9 August 2013
Eva Galperin - EFF - HTTPS Everywhere - Easy Privacy Tools
Eva Galperin is the International Freedom of Expression Coordinator at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She worked all over Silicon Valley and now covers (…)
21 December 2012
Barrett Brown - Activist and writer
Barrett Brown is an activist and writer who evolved from reporting about Anonymous to becoming involved with information leaked through hacks. He talks (…)
18 May 2012
Attorney Stanley Cohen - PayPal 14 & Civil Liberties
As a criminal defense attorney Stanley Cohen only takes cases of the individual against the State. He talks about the evolution of threats to individual (…)
5 April 2013
Eleana Cohen & Meg Maurus - Nat’l Lawyers Guild Occupy & Rights
Eleana Cohen and Meg Maurus attorneys with National Lawyers Guild NYC Chapter talk about NLG 100 year history of defending civil rights. Special focus is (…)
7 September 2012
Alexa O’Brien - Week One Manning Trial
On the weekend before the trial began there were world wide protests in support of Bradley Manning. Alexa gives us some idea of their scope and the (…)
7 June 2013
Peter Phillips - Project Censored - Least Reported News
Peter Phillips is a professor & Director of Project Censored; since 1976 they have made a broad academic investigation of stories edited and (…)
10 August 2012