Our Hackable Political Future
Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, “surfaces” video of a sex scene starring an 18-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand.…
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Trump is a typical conservative. That says a lot about the conservative tradition.
Corey Robin is the author of “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump.” The New Yorker described the first edition of this book as…
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Statehouses are the new arena in the battle for net neutrality
"Ryan Singel, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, believes that legislation may survive judicial scrutiny, and the poli…
Is it Time for a National Cybersecurity Safety Board?
Abstract In the wake of a series of destabilizing and damaging cyber attacks ranging from Equifax to Yahoo!, there has been a growing call for the U.S. governm…
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A Glossary of Internet Content Blocking Tools
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume, where it appears as an appendix. The terminology it explains is relevant…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: Real Power, Real Outcomes, Realpolitik - Platforms and the Law
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
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Memogate Shows U.S. Still Has No Idea What To Do with Russia's Meddling Online
"“Russian activity is the canary in the coal mine for a much bigger problem,” said Ben Scott, an adviser to the State Department under former Secretary of…
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People Can Put Your Face on Porn—and the Law Can't Help You
"And it's the very artifice involved in these videos that provides enormous legal cover for their creators. “It falls through the cracks because it’s a…
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AI in Government: Experts Are of Two Minds
"“Right now these systems are either not doing what they’re supposed to be doing or they’re doing things in ways that allow the companies that are selling…
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Popularity doesn't equal truth.
Popularity doesn't equal truth. And yet Facebook's recent proposal to rank the trustworthiness of news sources based on popularity is loosely equating t…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: Black Letter Law
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
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Latest Tesla Autopilot Wreck Shows How Future Car Accidents Will Be Investigated Like Plane Crashes
"“Aviation suggests the way forward,” says autonomy researcher Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor in the School of Law and the School of Engineeri…