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Judge Ungags Subway Hackers

Boston Phoenix | August 21, 2008

Free speech has won in the struggle between the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and three MIT undergrads who claim to have uncovered flaws in the subway's electronic fare-collection system.

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Tags: Ku Klux Klan, ACLU, transportation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, civil liberties, Charlie Cards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MBTA

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The Gates Case Isn't About Racenew

The weeks-long hubbub over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. by the Cambridge Police Department has centered on race, understandably. But the racial façade of the story has obscured two other bottom-line truths that should govern the "Gates-gate" conversation.

Boston Phoenix | Harvey Silverglate | 08-06-2009 | Civil Liberties

Tags: Cambridge Police Department, constitutional law, First Amendment Rights, Racial Issues, Social Issues, law, police, Harvard, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The RIAA vs. Free Speechnew

The US recording industry is attempting to block the free public Webcast of its courtroom proceedings against Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University grad student accused of illegally downloading music,

Boston Phoenix | Kyle Smeallie and Harvey Silverglate | 02-05-2009 | Civil Liberties

Tags: civil liberties, Joel Tenenbaum, Recording Industry Association of America