The right to record

• Tim Pool and other citizen journalists providing live video of the protests against the NATO summit in Chicago were stopped by police at gunpoint early Sunday morning. Earlier the Columbia Journalism Review had written about the ongoing struggling between (citizen) journalists and authorities over the right to record, highlighting a recent message by the Department of Justice to the Baltimore Police emphasizing the public's right to record police officers on the street. In an editorial today, the New York Times praises the DOJ letter.

Is Pete Souza taking requests?

• White House photographer Pete Souza shot photos of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and President Barack Obama watching the penalty shootout that handed Chelsea a dramatic win over Bayern Munich in the weekend's Champions League final — and did it, it seems, in part because NBC reporter Luke Russert asked for the image via Twitter. Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's Twitter accounted had posted a picture of the world leaders watching the game using Instagram. And as was probably inevitable, one Internet user than transported the cheering David Cameron to last year's iconic Bin Laden Situation Room photo.

Religion, censorship and the Internet

• Up to 40,000 Orthodox Jews were expected at New York's Citi Field yesterday as part of a rally warning about the dangers of the unfiltered Internet Michael Grynbaum from the New York Times reported. Organized by a rabbinical group linked to a software company that sells Internet filtering software to Orthodox Jews, those in attendance at the rally "were handed fliers that advertised services like a 'kosher GPS App' for iPhone and Android phones, which helps users locate synagogues and kosher restaurants."

Around the web

• Meanwhile at the end of last week a Tumblr emerged focused on Hasidic politics in Brooklyn. The author analyzes a symbolically interesting Democratic district leader race in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint areas of Brooklyn between the incument Lincoln Restler, who narrowly won the position two years ago as a representative of the progressive wing of the local Democratic Party, and Chris Olechowski, a community board chair representing the Democratic establishment represented by Vito Lopez, chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party and a New York state assemblyman. (via Colin Campbell)

• Newark Mayor Cory Booker took to Twitter and a YouTube video yesterday to clarify remarks he had made on Meet The Press critical of the Obama campaign's attacks on private equity in general and Bain Capital in particular. Politico noted that Obama campaign press secretary Ben La Bolt had tweeted an edited version of Booker's video. As Dylan Byers writes, "What gets lost in the edit is the nuance of Booker's argument. Watching the 35-second video, you would believe that Booker was flip-flopping from his comments on Meet The Press and going on an all-out assault on Romney ... In other words, the 35-second video is a reverse from the original argument. The four-minute video is an extension of the original argument."

• The Obama campaign is encouraging supporters to search data of its two million donors by properties such as name, state and occupation.

• The Obama campaign's Romneyeconomics website features an interactive map featuring what it says were the effects of Romney's investment decisions "as a corporate buyout specialist" in certain states.

• ICYMI: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is running political ads on YouTube targeted by zip code in seven New York congressional districts.

• The New York Times catches on to Newt Gingrich's campaign debt.

• The Washington Post uses White House visitor logs to investigate lobbying influence on the Obama administration.

• America is seeing a new "digital manifest destiny" evolve that is spreading its values across the country and worldwide, the Associated Press suggests, in interviews with Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, and others. "A digital manifest destiny is playing out, built upon the notion that the United States' outward expansion continues apace on the virtual frontier. What the self-defined sense of American exceptionalism built in the physical world, it is now building in the digital one," posits the AP's Ted Anthony.

• The FCC released its final plan for revising or eliminating outdated regulations.

• The Obama administration announced two app challenges related to 700 open government datasets now available on Safety.Data.gov.

• An academic study suggests that BitTorrent downloads benefit music sales. Naturally, Torrentfreak is on it:

  This missing element motivated economist Robert Hammond, Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, to conduct his own research.
  In a paper titled “Profit Leak? Pre-Release File Sharing and the Music Industry” Hammond published his findings.

  Between May 2010 and January 2011 the professor collected a variety of download statistics of new albums that were released on the largest private BitTorrent tracker dedicated to music. He then used this data in combination with sales numbers to construct a model that predicts what the causal effect of piracy on music sales is.

• The Roman Catholic archbishop of New York is on Twitter.

• California's Fair Political Practices Commission appears to have cleared the way for California judges to post financial disclosures online by allowing them to request the redaction of potentially sensitive personal information.

• The International Herald Tribune explored why the founding and success of a company like Facebook would be challenging in Europe.

• The Associated Press reported how the British government's data surveillance proposal could expose citizens' private information.

• Ostensibly covert American drone operations in Yemen are being noted by Yemenis on Twitter.

• Pakistan blocked access to Twitter for about eight hours yesterday, reportedly because tweets were promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

• Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has an actual chance of winning an upper house seat in his native Australia, according to a poll.

• European Parliament Member Marietje Schaake highlighted her favorite posts on Techdirt this week.

• The new French minister in charge of small and medium enterprises and the digital economy, Fleur Pellerin, was adopted from South Korea.

• A U.N. monitor in Syria expressed frustration with being filmed by an activist, who ignored his requests, as the U.N. monitor said there was no reason to film him or put video of him on YouTube.