The online retailer has been criticised for profiting from ebooks featuring terror and violence. No one should tell us what to read, says Jo Glanville
Why should Amazon be our taste and decency police?
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CATEGORY: United Kingdom
The return of a bad idea
Cindy Cohn is alarmed by the shift towards mass surveillance in the UK government’s “snooper’s charter”
Nine-year-old school dinner blogger gagged
A council in Scotland has banned a nine-year-old girl from posting photographs of school dinners on her blog. Alice Purkiss reports
UK Parliament debates defamation bill
This week’s debate will be a key staging in the progress of libel reform, but serious issues remain for campaigners
Lord Justice Leveson’s big internet problem
The inquiry into UK press standards does not seem to understand how to deal with the web, says Marta Cooper
UK: Spectator fined after admitting reporting breach
The Spectator has been ordered to pay £5,600 after admitting a November 2011 article about the trial of Stephen Lawrence's killers breached a court order. Associate editor Rod Liddle's piece claimed defendants Gary Dobson and David Norris --- who...
Britain’s press needs a strong public interest defence
The Leveson Inquiry should not forget the need to protect British journalism, says Marta Cooper
UK: receives police warning for Facebook joke about Olympic flame
A woman who joked on Facebook that she planned to squirt the Olympic flame with a water pistol has been issued with a warning by police. Helen Perry posted the joke on a local newspaper page, and was contacted by the police several weeks later. In...
Northern Ireland: Contempt case against Peter Hain dropped
A contempt of court charge brought against former NI Secretary Peter Hain regarding criticisms he made of a judge in Northern Ireland has been dropped. Hain had written to Attorney General John Larkin about the remarks, stressing he never intended...
UK: Broadcasters win legal fight over Dale Farm footage
A number of UK broadcasters have won a judicial review overturning a decision that had forced them to hand over video footage of October's Dale Farm evictions to Essex Police. ITN, the BBC, Sky, Hardcash Productions and the National Union of...