"Federal District Court Judge Suzanne Conlon has dismissed an ACLU challenge to the Illinois law that makes recording someone in a public space without their permission a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison."

"California's law making it illegal to impersonate people online just went into effect.

Now this hobby will get you dinged for up to $1,000 and/or a year in jail."

Dec. 22: In an exclusive interview with msnbc’s Cenk Uygur, the WikiLeaks chief denies that he conspired to commit espionage with U.S. Army Specialist Bradley Manning, asserting that such claims are “absolute nonsense.”

The man behind a controversial book considered a "how-to" guide for pedophiles was arrested in Colorado, officials in Florida said Monday.
"You cannot engage or depict children in a harmful relationship," said Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd as he described the Florida obscenity statute that officials used to charge Phillip Greaves with distribution of obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct.

A man convicted of threatening law enforcement officials in a rap video posted on the Internet has been sentenced to a year in jail. Jason Foley was also sentenced Thursday in Taunton District Court to two years of probation and banned from accessing the Internet or using a computer.

Wikileaks gets funding and support from Pirate Parties world-wide after getting ditched by Amazon and Paypal!

BERLIN — WikiLeaks has lost a major source of revenue after the online payment service provider PayPal cut off its account used to collect donations, saying the website is engaged in illegal activity.

A high school principal in Nevada is under fire for suspending 12 students who posted pro-marijuana signs on campus.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Lists that identify the books, music and movies individual customers bought from online retailer Amazon.com Inc. are protected from North Carolina tax collectors, a federal judge has ruled.

Let's hope the SCOTUS grows a brain and decides there really isn't anything that can be done about these Phelps creeps, because they're looking for some way to "ease the pain" of the father of the soldier whose funeral they "ruined." Just about any way they find for the father is going to amount to big trouble for free speech.