Louisiana AG Jeff Landry (R) [pictured] wins court battle to block Gov. John Edwards’s (D) executive order protecting LGBTQ state workers from discrimination.
(via Joe.My.God.)“Americans whose passports will brand them as international child molesters include people convicted of misdemeanors as well as felonies, people who committed their offenses as minors, people who were convicted decades ago and have never reoffended, people who as teenagers had consensual sex with other teenagers, and people who committed noncontact offenses such as sexting, streaking, public urination, and looking at child pornography.”
(via @jacobsullum; RT: @radleybalko)Fairfax County, Virginia police body-slam and arrest a reporter apparently for swearing, sailing full-speed towards an iceberg called the First Amendment.
When the FCC rescinded its net neutrality protections last March, several states vowed to implement their own regulations to protect consumers. So of course Verizon is trying to stop them.
Finally, Russia’s efforts to block “piracy sites” not only blocked ten times as many innocent sites, it also doubled the country’s pirate video market.
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