Electronic Frontier Foundation has more news about
the “Innocence of Muslims” case
Apparently the normally liberal to temperate Ninth Circuit ordered that
the YouTube video with the supposed 5-second "copyright clip” be kept off the web even though the Circuit agreed that the copyright
claim sounded weak and dubious, and it even issued a gag order, preventing
Google from talking about the case for a full week. The EFF article on its amicus brief (linked)
is here. It called this a “dangerous” even if
temporary ruling.
The gag order
obviously was motivated by overseas security concerns for the subject. But giving in to it would allow extremists to
bully speech off the Internet merely by making physical threats.
It appears to me that the film is back on YouTube now.
In the video above, Jeff Waldorf speaks about the
case for TYT Nation.
Picture: Friday, near Sugarload Mountain, notice a touch of David Lynch in the picture?
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