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Six Constitutional Hurdles for Platform Speech Regulation
Laws regulating platforms can also regulate their users. Some laws may protect users, as privacy laws often do. Others, including many well-intentioned regulati…
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Six Constitutional Hurdles for Platform Speech Regulation
Laws regulating platforms can also regulate their users. Some laws may protect users, as privacy laws often do. Others, including many well-intentioned regulati…
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“Tool Without A Handle: Spirituality, Virtue, and Technology Ethics - Part 2”
This post visits some additional concepts of virtue found in Christian teaching supplementing concepts from other traditions such as Aristotle (natural law trad…
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Ransomware can interfere with elections and fuel disinformation – basic cybersecurity precautions are key to minimizing the damage
Government computer systems in Hall County, Georgia, including a voter signature database, were hit by a ransomware attack earlier this fall in the first known…
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“Tool Without A Handle: Spirituality, Virtue, and Technology Ethics”
“Tool Without A Handle: Spirituality, Virtue, and Technology Ethics” "If one loves righteousness, whose works are virtues,She teaches moderation and prud…
Brief of Professors of Internet Law as Amici Curiae in Lawsuit over California Net Neutrality Law
On September 30, 2020, a group of seven Professors of Internet Law, led by Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Internet and So…
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California Defends its Net Neutrality Law
This week, California filed its first brief in the lawsuit by the United States and Internet service providers like AT&T and Comcast that seeks to overturn…
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CDA 230 Reform Grows Up: The PACT Act Has Problems, But It’s Talking About the Right Things
Alex Feerst, one of the great thinkers about Internet content moderation, has a revealing metaphor about the real-world work involved. “You might go into it thi…
Follow-up Comments on Telekom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Consultation Paper on "Traffic Management Practices (TMPs) and Multi-Stakeholder Body for Net Neutrality"
On June 29, 2020, Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanfor…
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LIVE: TRAI's Net Neutrality open house discussion on traffic management practices
"12:45pm: Professor van Schewick: There is no Net Neutrality left at the federal level in the US. I don’t think any of you is looking at the current US sys…
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Enforcing Net Neutrality in India: what to know before TRAI's open house discussion
"Barbara van Schewick, Stanford law professor, argued in her filing that regulation should make clear that TMPs should be as “application agnostic” as poss…
It's all linked: How communication to the public affects internet architecture
The architecture of the Internet is changing. A novel expansive construction of communication and making available to the public has been shaking the Internet e…