Digital Diary: Is Anonymity Dead?
Consider a recent conversation with a friend: She was excited about an upcoming date with a new guy. There was just one concern – she couldn’t find anything on him after a cursory Google search. No pictures on Flickr or even an ancient MySpace [...]

Long before she joined – and left – the Obama White House, RoadMAP has admired Susan Crawford for her intellectual breadth, clarity of thought, and general all-around-brilliance.  Her take on tech policy is always worth reading.  Having filed an amicus curiae brief in the case, MAP was basking in the glow [...]

RoadMAP is convinced that much of the plight of America’s largest newspapers is rooted in the fact that most of their family owners had to sell out.  Most of the great journalism families of the last century, the Bancrofts (Dow Jones), the Pulitizers, the Knights and Ridders, the Chandlers (LA Times) [...]

BY TONY MAURO, THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL

Just how conservative or pro-business the Roberts Court is continues to generate debate. But on one subject, the trend line is undeniable: a strong majority favors classic First Amendment protection for even the most objectionable speech.
The Court capped its 2010-11 term Monday with the latest landmark [...]

By John Eggerton, Multichannel News
Reply comments are due Monday, June 27 on the FCC’s retransmission-consent rule review.
The comments will mostly be restating initial objections, support and suggestions for the FCC’s planned tweaking of its rules on broadcast/cable negotiations of payment over station signal carriage, as well as replying to the arguments [...]

By Cecilia Kang, Post Tech

The Supreme Court said Monday that it will rule on the Federal Communications Commission’s ability to police the nation’s airwaves for indecencies.
The justices said they will review a decision by the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that put the FCC’s role as indecency watchdog in [...]

By Gautham Nagesh, Hillicon Valley

The Supreme Court struck down a California law that bans the sale of violent video games to minors on Monday, ruling that video games are protected under the First Amendment as free speech.
The court reached a decision in Brown vs. the Entertainment Merchants Association by a vote of 7-2, [...]

By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable

The Federal Communications Commission and Parents Television Council were understandably pleased Monday that the Supreme Court had agreed to decide whether a lower court was right to rule the FCC’s indecency enforcement regime unconstitutionally vague and chilling.
The FCC had sought the High Court hearing and [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202-454-5861
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States today granted the government’s petition for certiorari challenging a lower court decision which held that the Federal Communications Commission’s policies on broadcast “indecency” violated the First Amendment.
Media Access Project (MAP) represents the Center for Creative Voices in Media and the [...]

MAP’s  comments in reply to the FCC’s NPRM regarding retransmission can be viewed here