Jails banned visits in "quid pro quo" with prison phone companies, lawsuits say(arstechnica.com)

67 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 14 comments

Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and be freed from prison(apnews.com)

71 points by geox 2 years ago | 3 comments

U.S. Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence for YouTube Content ID Scammer(torrentfreak.com)

34 points by CoBE10 3 years ago | 6 comments

X Bans and Then Unbans Journalists and Podcasters in Latest Free Speech Massacre(gizmodo.com)

57 points by ceejayoz 2 years ago | 51 comments

Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup(theguardian.com)

14 points by CXSHNGCB 1 year ago | 2 comments

Missouri executes a man despite prosecutors' push to overturn conviction(theguardian.com)

27 points by rossant 2 years ago | 9 comments

Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node(lowendbox.com)

735 points by h0ek 3 years ago | 489 comments

LowEndBox blog post recounting the case of William Weber, convicted of child pornography charges in Austria after running a Tor exit node.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months(arstechnica.com)

324 points by quantified 3 months ago | 185 comments

Ars Technica article on how police misread a username missing an underscore, leading to an innocent man spending 18 months in prison.

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight(torrentfreak.com)

392 points by askl 6 months ago | 395 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting Spotify and major labels won a $322M default judgment and domain-suspension injunction against Anna's Archive operators.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government(arstechnica.com)

360 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 625 comments

Ars Technica article on a federal judge's preliminary injunction finding the White House pressured social networks to suppress speech, in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana.