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After 32 months of litigation, my quest to unseal my local federal district court's sealed surveillance docket has ended with not a single page unsealed and no prospective reforms in place.  Read more about Court Denies Petition to Unseal Its Perma-Sealed Surveillance Docket

This discussion, excerpted from my Who Do You Sue article, very briefly reviews the implications of what I call “must-carry” arguments – claims that operators of major Internet platforms should be held to the same First Amendment standards as the government, and prevented from using their Terms of Service or Community Guidelines to prohibit lawful speech. Read more about What Online Content Are We Regulating? Illegal Speech, Offensive Speech, and Platform Value

Lawmakers today are increasingly focused on their options for regulating the content we see on online platforms. I described several ambitious regulatory models for doing that in my recent paper, Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power Over Online Speech. This blog post excerpts that discussion, and sketches out potential legal regimes to address major platforms’ function as de facto gatekeepers of online speech and information. Read more about Platform Content Regulation – Some Models and Their Problems

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” – The Wizard of Oz Read more about The Wonderful Wizards of Oz