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Bebo Ups the Ante on Keeping Kids Safe

Bebo recently implemented a new site button which let’s its users report priority issues:

The button is called the CEOP Report button, (CEOP stands for UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre), if you click on it, you’ll get advice and help about issues such as child abuse (but also viruses and hacking), as [...]

Caselaw Now Searchable in Google Scholar

Google is on a tear. Over the past several months, it has rolled-out several new products: FastFlip and Image Swirl among them. Now it has incorporated full-text legal opinions for state and federal courts into Google Scholar.

By adding caselaw into Scholar, Google is squarely taking aim and paid services like Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis. [...]

Being Held Liable for Tweets

Courtney Love is being sued by a fashion designer for allegedly criticizing her on Twitter. Among other things, Love apparently tweeted that the designer had a history of cocaine use.

Smart.

Just because the medium may be novel, defamation can still be shown in such cases. Despite that, observers are still trying to sort out [...]

YouTube 101: How To Land Your Sorry Ass In Jail

According to Mashable’s Adam Ostrow, a graffiti artist in Los Angeles who climbed onto a freeway overpass to spray paint his tag has been arrested after police discovered his YouTube video showing the entire incident:

According to the LA Times, the artist – Cyrus Yazdani – has been sentenced to three years and eight months in [...]

Illinois Bans Registered Sex Offenders from Social Networking Sites

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill into law which makes it illegal for registered sex offenders (RSO’s) from creating accounts on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. While the law sounds plausible at first glance, such legislation often suffers from the law of unintended consequences, punishing a wide multitude of people never intended [...]