The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
By Bryant Walker Smith on February 11, 2021 at 8:51 am
By Daphne Keller on February 8, 2021 at 5:11 am
NOTE: This is an expanded version of an older post. Read more about Empirical Evidence of Over-Removal by Internet Companies Under Intermediary Liability Laws: An Updated List
By Daphne Keller on February 1, 2021 at 5:00 am
By Richard Forno on January 28, 2021 at 5:36 am
The so-called 'Right to Repair' is a consumer grassroots initiative that seeks to allow technology users and consumers the ability to repair, modify, or seek third-party servicing of their electronic devices in a world where the maker of those devices prefers, if not requires, customers to use only their 'authorized' services or stores/facilities. Read more about Challenging cybersecurity as the reason to oppose the consumer Right to Repair
“We have become so beaten down by this that we just accept it,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeastern University law professor. “The idea that anyone should be expected to read these terms of service is preposterous — they are written to discourage people from reading them.” Contracts are, in theory, meant to be mutually agreeable. How can they be if they’re designed so consumers cannot understand them? Read more about What Happens When You Click ‘Agree’?
By Daphne Keller on January 22, 2021 at 6:50 am
Laws regulating platforms can also regulate their users. Some laws may protect users, as privacy laws often do. Others, including many well-intentioned regulations of online content, can erode protections for users’ rights. Read more about Six Constitutional Hurdles for Platform Speech Regulation
By Chuck Cosson on January 17, 2021 at 3:31 pm
This post visits some additional concepts of virtue found in Christian teaching supplementing concepts from other traditions such as Aristotle (natural law tradition), Buddhism, and Confucianism, namely:
Consumer preferences are not always the same as consumer interests;
Winning is not the most important thing;
Solitude matters as much as engagement;
If the only values applied to Internet services are to “give people what they want,” “win followers and ads at all costs,” and “maximize reach and engagement” we will be vastly underequipped to deal with the problems those services – and the people who use them - would create, both presently and yet to come. And we will fail to respond to our present moment, one characterized by trauma, wounding, and loss that should indeed motivate us to pursue new thinking and new approaches. Read more about “Tool Without A Handle: Spirituality, Virtue, and Technology Ethics - Part 2”
Social media finally pulled the plug on Donald Trump. Days after Trump incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter permanently banned the president from its platform, and many other social media companies like Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat suspended Trump’s accounts as well.
Read full article Read more about Banning Trump from Twitter and Facebook isn’t nearly enough
By Riana Pfefferkorn on January 14, 2021 at 11:41 am
In late December, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Read more about When You Hack Phones on the Fly, but Won’t Confirm or Deny, That’s a Glomar!
