Law

In the official online forum of the Obama transition team, tens of thousands of Americans petitioned for a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's support for torture. Was this democracy in action? Or would it only be if the President were to follow through on it? We examine this here.

The Launch

Six quotes set the stage:

A year ago, I articulated the Protocol for Online Abuse Reporting (PONAR): a framework of icons, forms, and processes which could be deployed to help mitigate the effects of injurious speech online.

Now that a federal judge has cleared Wikileaks.org to have its domain restored, it perhaps might behoove the free information zealots to actually look into the substance of the story which instigated the takedown. Bank Julius Baer, a Swiss bank, has a Cayman Island subidiary apparently serving as a tax shelter for the rich: Perhaps top reporters are working on it?