A Conservative British member of Parliament who has recently had some trouble with trolls on the web and on Twitter has co-founded a new social network to discuss politics. Conservative MP Louise Mensch is working with Luke Bozier, who worked for Tony Blair as head of digital communications at the headquarters of the Labour Party and and founded the local government utility municpo.com, on the new website, "menshn." Read More

Google says it continues to see cases of governments asking Google to remove political speech, which are alarming "not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect—Western democracies not typically associated with censorship." This interpretation comes alongside newly released data from July to December 2011 detailing governmental requests to remove content from its search results or websites. Read More

Workers' Voice, the super PAC of the AFL-CIO, is close to finishing its "platform to encourage volunteer action," and expects to launch it next month, Eddie Vale, communications director for Workers' Voice, writes in an e-mail. Using that platform, supporters will be earn the right to direct some of the organization's spending by participating in Workers' Voice field and online program and completing certain actions. To complement that effort, similar to a survey that MoveOn recently sent to its supporters, it has sent a message to its supporters asking them which election races are important to them. Read More

An outside group backing a Democratic candidate for Congress in New York is using highly targeted web ads to reach potential voters. With lots of talk about targeting at the presidential level, it's worth noting as smaller campaigns adopt the same practice.

A group affiliated with Emily's List called "Women Vote!" has so far dropped $38,000 in online advertising to support Grace Meng, a candidate for the Democratic nod to replace Rep. Gary Ackerman in New York's 6th District, City and State reported last week.

Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: The dispute in Michigan over legislation with consequences for women's health and reproductive rights generates a nominee for subject line of the year; news organizations advocate for cameras in the courtroom to cover the announcement of an expected Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the health care law; and more in today's round up of news about technology in politics from around the web. Read More

Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: More highlights from Personal Democracy Forum 2012; how the Romney and Obama campaigns are sparring online this week; movement on an international mesh network project that may launch early next year; and the rest of today's news worth knowing in technology and politics from around the web. Read More