• Keeping prosecutors busy? Georgia lawmaker files bill that would make Internet defamation a crime [Fulton County Daily Report]
• Sarkozy calls for law banning visits to pro-terror websites [Ken Paulson, First Amendment Center]
• “Ron Paul Campaign Drops Effort To Identify Anonymous Videographer” [Paul Alan Levy]
• Playboy caused how many divorces? Junk science in the service of big-government conservatism [Andrew Stuttaford, NRO] How Santorum’s plans to get porn off internet go beyond GWB’s [Josh Barro] Contra Santorum, “arrival of Internet was associated with reduction in rape incidence” [Steve Chapman]
• “Brian Deer and the British Medical Journal File An Anti-SLAPP Motion Against Andrew Wakefield” [Popehat]
• Iowa passes law penalizing animal rightsers who spy on farms [Reuters, earlier] Illinois turns thumbs down on “ag-gag” proposal [Steve Chapman]
• “What’s happened to free speech in Britain?” [Alex Massie, John O’Sullivan/NRO, earlier here and others]

Filed under: animal rights, France, free speech, Iowa, libel slander and defamation, online speech, Ron Paul, terrorism, United Kingdom