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Congress Moves on Broadband Regulation--But to Where?
The announcement yesterday from key Senate Democrats of an effort to reform the Communications Act put me in a nostalgic mood. Here follows one of my longest ef…
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Free Speech vs. Hate Speech On Facebook
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted in this article on Facebook's monitoring of potentially offensive conten…
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Should The Law Punish Robot Tasks Differently?
I attended a fascinating thesis defense today on the subject of human-robot interaction by Stanford PhD candidate Victoria Groom. HRI experiments apparently te…
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BRIGHT IDEAS: Talking About Robotics With Ryan Calo
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to Danielle Citron of Concurring Opinions about his research in the field of rob…
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The First National Broadband Plan
Over the weekend, I published an op-ed in The Des Moines Register encouraging the FCC to heed the lessons of the first national broadband plan, the one Secretar…
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A New Wall Street Initiative
Two weeks ago, the Future of Money and Technology Summit held in San Francisco offered a glimpse of powerful ways that technology can reshape the banking and fi…
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Comm Daily(R) Notebook
Professor Barbara van Schewick is quoted in this article on net neutrality and broadband regulation: Reports that the FCC may regulate broadband as a Title I s…
Robots and Privacy
Robots and Privacy, in ROBOT ETHICS: THE ETHICAL AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF ROBOTICS (Patrick Lin et al, eds.) (MIT Press 2012) * Publication Type:Academic Wr…
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Objective Failure: Why the debate about media objectivity threatens the viability of general-interest news outlets.
In the midst of a crisis threatening the very existence of the journalism industry, it might seem like an odd time to debate the merits of objective news report…
The Case for Online Obscurity
On the Internet, obscure information has a minimal risk of being discovered or understood by unintended recipients. Empirical research demonstrates that Interne…
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Robot Rules
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on robotics and liability issues. Richard Acello of the ABA Journal filed th…
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Second Circuit Adopts Stricter Standard For Copyright Injunctions
Last summer, a federal district court in New York issued a preliminary injunction banning the publication of 60 Years Later - Coming Through The Rye on the grou…