I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
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My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
Protesters charged with crimes for retweets; Georgia school suspension regarding lack of social distancing
Jaclyn Preiser has a storyon The Washington Post about
several persons in New Jersey charged for threatening (“cyber harassment”)
police officers after they retweeted a message from a protester that could have
doxxed a police officer thought to be making friends with enemies of Black
Lives Matter.
The defendants have GoFundMe pages (linked by the Post
if you want to help them).It certainly
sounds credible that the defendants thought they were transmitting legitimate
news of possible police misconduct.
The Verge has a much more detailedstory by Adi
Robertson. It is very unusual for people to get into trouble for blind retweets (except as part of organized activity).
The Post has another story (by Katie Shepherd) about activists who believe they should not post
on social media their own videos for fear that police will use it against other
protesters.
In Georgia (video embed above), a high school student was suspended for posting
a picture of a crowded school hallway without masks or social distancing on the
theory that the school forbids personal photos on school property from being
posted publicly.That sounds like my own
“conflict of interest” problem that I hav talked about before. The school has
reversed the suspension (NBC story).
Picture: NE Georgia Mountains, April 2018, my trip.
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