Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University, who has followed those lawsuits, said he believes similar autocomplete court battles would be “doomed to failure” in the United States, where Google has strong First Amendment protections on its side. “Fundamentally, it’s Google’s search engine and they can do what they want with it,” he told IBTimes. “They can impose whatever filter they want on particular results, so a legal claim there is unlikely to be successful.”

via Google Autocomplete Still Blocking ‘Bisexual’: LGBT Advocates Fight For Fair Treatment Of Search Terms.

The level of challenge is rising, but “we also see the amount of resources going into censorship increasing greatly,” Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School who specializes in Internet law, said in a telephone interview.

via Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With ‘Bloggers Law’ – NYTimes.com.

This July, Mr. Zittrain will become chair of Berkman’s Board of Directors, on which he has served since 2000. He will lead a research center that has spawned projects such as the sharing of songs, courseware, and other materials through Creative Commons copyright licenses.

via Cyberlaw Scholar to Lead Berkman Center for Internet & Society – People – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

“America led the world in the first generation of Internet application development, but it won’t for the second,” said Susan Crawford, Harvard law professor and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age.

via Abrams: Pricey high-speed Internet hurts entrepreneurs.

With the help of the Cyberlaw Clinic, the Consortium of School Networks (“CoSN”) has released the Protecting Privacy in Connected Learning Toolkit. The toolkit, issued in March as part of CoSN’s new Protecting Privacy in Connected Learning initiative, provides an in-depth, step-by-step privacy guide is to help school system leaders navigate complex federal laws and related issues.

via School network consortium partners with Cyberlaw Clinic to create privacy toolkit for school systems | Harvard Law Today.

“It’s extraordinarily bad for the long-term maintenance of the information we need, say, to understand the law,” says Zittrain, who helped create Perma.cc, a service to help judges, authors and scholars preserve links indefinitely.

via Stopping Link Rot: Aiming To End A Virtual Epidemic : All Tech Considered : NPR.

But if this is the end of net neutrality as we know it, it is not the end of the line for fair and equitable Internet access. Indeed, the commission’s decision frees Americans to focus on a real long-term solution: supporting open municipal-level fiber networks.

via The Wire Next Time – NYTimes.com.

But the hash tag generated more ideas of cops doing things like holding down a protester or knocking over a bicyclist. To talk more about this, I’m joined now by Zeynep Tufekci of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Welcome to the program.

via Why Companies Have Trouble Adapting To Twitter | KUNC.

Ours is not the first era to turn its back on libraries. The Roman Empire boasted an informal system of public libraries, stretching from Spain to the Middle East, which declined and disappeared in the early medieval period. In his book Libraries: An Unquiet History, Matthew Battles calls such disasters “biblioclasms.”

via The future of the library: How they’ll evolve for the digital age..

An op-ed by Judith Donath in Wired Magazine.

We Need Online Alter Egos Now More Than Ever | Opinion | WIRED.