EFF Needs Your Support in the Fight for Bloggers' Rights!

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EFF Needs Your Support in the Fight for Bloggers' Rights!

 

EFF is a donor-funded nonprofit group of passionate people—lawyers,

technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — who depend on your

support to continue successfully defending your digital rights.

Litigation is particularly expensive; because two-thirds of our budget

comes from individual donors, every contribution is critical to

helping EFF fight —and win—more cases.

 

You Have the Right to Blog Anonymously. EFF has fought for your right

to speak anonymously on the Internet, establishing legal protections

in several states and federal jurisdictions, and developing

technologies to help you protect you identity. With your support, EFF

can continue to defend this right, conducting impact litigation to

establish strict standards to unmask an anonymous critic in more

jurisdictions.

 

You Have the Right to Keep Sources Confidential. In Apple v. Does, EFF

is fighting to establish the reporter's privilege for online

journalists before the California courts. With your support, EFF can

defend news bloggers from subpoenas seeking the identity of

confidential sources in more jurisdictions.

 

You Have the Right to Make Fair Use of Intellectual Property. In OPG

v. Diebold, Diebold, Inc., a manufacturer of electronic voting

machines, had sent out copyright cease-and-desist letters to ISPs

after internal documents indicating flaws in their systems were

published on the Internet. EFF established the publication was a fair

use. With your support, EFF can help fight to protect bloggers from

frivolous or abusive threats and lawsuits.

 

You have the Right to Allow Readers' Comments Without Fear. In Barrett

v. Rosenthal, EFF is working to establish that Section 230, a strong

federal immunity for online publishers, applies to bloggers. With your

support, EFF can continue to protect bloggers from liability for

comments left by third parties.

 

You Have the Right to Protect Your Server from Government Seizure. In

In re Subpoena to Rackspace. EFF successfully fought to unveil a

secret government subpoena that had resulted in more than 20

Independent Media Center (Indymedia) news websites and other Internet

services being taken offline. With your support, EFF can hold the

government accountable for investigations that cut off protected speech.

 

You Have the Right to Freely Blog about Elections. EFF has advocated

for the sensible application of Federal Election Commission rules to

blogs that comment on political campaigns. With your support, EFF can

continue to protect political blogs from onerous campaign regulations.

 

You Have the Right to Blog about Your Workplace. EFF has educated

bloggers on their rights to blog about their workplace and developed

technologies to help anonymous whistle bloggers. With your support,

EFF can help shape the law to protect workplace bloggers from unfair

retaliation.

 

You Have the Right to Access as Media. EFF has educated bloggers on

their right to access public information, attend public events with

the same rights as mainstream media, and how to blog from public

events. With your support, EFF can fight for bloggers' right to access

as media.

 

Know Your Rights and Prepare to Defend Them. EFF has created the Legal

Guide for Bloggers to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you

may confront as a blogger and a guide on How to Blog Safely. With your

support, EFF can expand and update these guides.

 

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