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For Judges on Facebook, Friendship Has Limits

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Judges and lawyers in Florida can no longer be Facebook friends.

In a recent opinion, the state’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee decided it was time to set limits on judicial behavior online. When judges “friend” lawyers who may appear before them, the committee said, it creates the appearance of a conflict of interest, since it “reasonably conveys to others the impression that these lawyer ‘friends’ are in a special position to influence the judge.”

In practice, of course, actual friends and Facebook friends can be as different as leather and pleather, and the committee did recognize that online friends were not the same as friends in the traditional sense. A minority of the panel would have allowed Facebook friendship, which it characterized as more like “a contact or acquaintance” without conveying the notion of “feelings of affection or personal regard.”

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Finland: First Country to Make Broadband A Legal Right

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Kudos to the Finnish government, which has just introduced laws guaranteeing broadband access to every person living in Finland (5.5 million people, give or take).

Starting July 2010, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection as an intermediate step, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. By the end of 2015, the legal right will be extended to an impressive 100 Mb broadband connection for everyone.

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Texting While Driving Banned for Federal Workers

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Federal employees will no longer be allowed to send text messages while driving government vehicles or when driving their own cars and using cellphones paid for by the government, according to an executive order signed Wednesday night by President Obama.

The order also precludes federal employees using their personal hand-held devices from sending text messages while driving on government business.

Separately, the federal government plans to ban text messaging by bus drivers and truckers who travel across state lines, and may also preclude that group from using cellphones while driving, except in cases of emergency.

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UK’s High Court orders writ to be served via Twitter

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Britain’s High Court ordered its first injunction via Twitter Thursday, saying the social website and micro-blogging service was the best way to reach an anonymous Tweeter who had been impersonating someone.

Solicitors Griffin Law sought the injunction against the micro-blog page www.twitter.com/blaneysblarney arguing it was impersonating right-wing blogger Donal Blaney, the owner of Griffin Law.

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Social Media Banned from College Stadiums?

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secToday, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is expected to release a final version of its new media policy. For the sake of sports fans everywhere, let’s hope it has some significant changes from the current version, because at the moment, it can best be described as a ban on all social media usage at SEC games.

Earlier this month, the conference informed its schools of the new policy, which reads: “Ticketed fans can’t “produce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the Event.”

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Ridiculous.  I could possibly understand if it was a professonal Blogger infringing on authorized media rights, but the average college student? if anything the sharing done on Social Media sites helps promote the game and teams!   Let’s hope this doesn’t stick.

Should Sex Offenders be banned from all Social Networking Sites?

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patquinnShould sex offenders be allowed to use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networking sites? Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (pictured) thinks not, and this week signed into law a bill that bans all registered sex offenders in his state from using social networks.

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I do think there should be some regulation with who registers on social networking sites such as FB, Myspace, etc. where photos of teens are readily available, however the Term social networking sites applies to much more than just Social Media.  It also refers to Any magazine website etc. that has you create a profile.  I also agree w/ alot of the comments about how it shouldn’t include statatory rape b/c of how it usually is two teens.   So maybe if they define the terms better, and figure out a more praticial way of implementing it.

Twitter being sued for patent infringement

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Twitter is being sued for patent infringement by TechRadium, a Texas-based technology company which makes mass notification systems for public safety organizations, the military, and utilities.

TechRadium claims that it thought up the whole concept of mass notifications, and points to three issued patents: Nos. 7,130,389, 7,496,183, and 7,519,165. According to the lawsuit, which was filed yesterday on August 4, 2009 in Houston, Texas (full document embedded at bottom of post):

The very concept of unifying different message communication systems is what is in dispute hereRead more at www.techcrunch.com