When Diebold Sends a C&D to Dennis Kucinich and House.gov
...I want to be a fly on the wall. So says Doug Simpson (via Donna). Kuchinich has posted excerpts of the Diebold memos from his house.gov site:
"Diebold has been using coercive legal claims to intimidate internet service providers and even universities to shut down websites with links to its memos and remove the memo content. Under copyright laws, however, universities are exempt, and posting links to the memos is not considered a violation of the law. By abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Diebold has intimidated numerous internet service providers to comply with its requests. The damage is two-fold: 1) limiting the public's information about the security of its voting machines, and 2) expanding corporate control over our most free medium of expression, the Internet.
Now there's a stand on keeping the internet free.
Posted by Mary Hodder at November 20, 2003 07:39 AM