Ernie Miller has been valiantly documenting and following this case, where Swarthmore College is going after students who link their websites to leaked Diebold memos (on the Why War? site) about the problematic security in their voting systems. Frank Field: Diebold has been responding with notice and takedown notices on a site-by-site basis, leading to an extended game of "whack-a-mole" that Swarthmore is now intervening in by taking away web access to any student linking to the site.
Ed Felten and Donna Wentworth also comment on this case.
Update: Seth Finkelstein comments too. And though I didn't explain the reason Ernie's efforts were valiant, I probably should have. If you read his posts, he managed to track down various Swarthmore students, as well as several calls to get to the IT department guys responsible for this, to do a little citizen reporting. Good blogging too!
Posted by Mary Hodder at October 24, 2003 08:16 AM