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Twitter users, blocked by Trump, cry censorship
"Morgan Weiland, an affiliate scholar with Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, says the blocked tweeters’ complaint could air key questi…
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Trump's Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
""The question of whether the President’s Twitter feed is a public forum is a more complicated question," says Neil Richards, a professor at Wash…
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Major web companies and public interest groups Announce Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
"Malkia Cyril, executive director at the Center for Media Justice, said: “Communities of color across the United States depend on an open Internet to thriv…
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British PM seeks to knock terrorists’ planning offline
"“It’s playing whack-a-mole,” said Richard Forno, who directs the graduate cybersecurity program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “The bad…
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Tool Without a Handle: Mutual Transparency in Social Media
“Tool Without a Handle: Mutual Transparency in Social Media” “I wish that for just one time You could stand inside my shoes And just for that one moment I…
From Horizontal to Vertical: An Intermediary Liability Earthquake in Europe
As part of its Digital Single Market Strategy, the European Commission would like to introduce vertical regulations, replacing — or better conflicting with — th…
The Introduction of a Neighbouring Right for Press Publisher at EU Level: The Unneeded (and Unwanted) Reform
(with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko) This article discusses the proposed introduction in EU law of neighbouring rights for press publishers for the…
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Not fast, not furious: Why government regulations can't keep up with transport innovation
""Are politicians reacting quickly enough? No, but they never do." Bryant Walker-Smith, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina,…
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Paramilitary security tracked and targeted #noDAPL activists, docs show
"But the information provided by TigerSwan could have helped police forces overcome that prohibition. Elizabeth Joh, a private security legal scholar at UC…
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In Trump’s America, Black Lives Matter activists grow wary of their smartphones
"As a longtime political activist, Malkia Cyril knows how smartphones helped fuel Black Lives Matter protests with outraged tweets and viral videos. But no…
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Concert security in the wake of Manchester Arena bombing: “We can’t keep you 100% safe”
""In terms of large, structural changes, in terms of how people go in and out of these facilities, I don't imagine there are going to be huge chan…
We now know who cheats on their taxes. (Hint: it’s not the poor or middle class.)
Social scientists find it hard to study many important questions because they don’t have good data: Tax evasion is one of those questions. For obvious reasons,…