{"id":149,"date":"2006-05-31T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/05\/first-amendment-protection-for-bloggers.html"},"modified":"2006-05-31T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T09:58:00","slug":"first-amendment-protection-for-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/first-amendment-protection-for-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"First amendment protection for bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/Censorship\/Apple_v_Does\/H028579.pdf\">ruled last Friday<\/a> that Apple can&#8217;t force website operators to divulge sources that  gave them details of an unannounced product. The decision overturns an earlier ruling that gave Apple the power to force the disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting aspect of the ruling is that the court specifically deals with blogging, declaring that constitutional free-press protections do apply to bloggers. See the footnotes on page 44 for a discussion of the definition of blogging and the similarity of blogs to other forms of publishing. I&#8217;m not familiar with a precedent to this case that deals with first amendment issues around blogging, but maybe somebody could set me straight.<\/p>\n<p>I was also surprised to note extensive references to Wikipedia in the court&#8217;s footnotes. Given that there is ongoing debate over the reliability of information on Wikipedia, I thought it was interesting that a state appellate court considers the source reliable enough to cite extensively in a legal decision.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Alice LaPlante for pointing out this story on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/blog\/main\/archives\/2006\/05\/apple_against_t.html\">Informationweek Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California appeals court ruled last Friday that Apple can&#8217;t force website operators to divulge sources that gave them details of an unannounced product. The decision overturns an earlier ruling that gave Apple the power to force the disclosure. One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/first-amendment-protection-for-bloggers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-2p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}