The stubborn, misguided myth that Internet platforms must be ‘neutral’
Lately, politicians and news sources have been repeating a persistent myth about, of all things, technology law. The myth concerns a provision of the 1996 Commu…
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Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security
Robert Chesney University of Texas School of Law Danielle Keats Citron University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law; Yale University - Yale Infor…
Toward a Clearer Conversation About Platform Liability
Read the full response at Emerging Threats. CIS Intermediary Liability Director Daphne Keller drafted this piece for the Knight First Amendment Institute’s “Em…
Congress's sloppy new internet bill is a step in the wrong direction
Most observers cheered when the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer was booted from YouTube, CloudFlare, and other platforms around the Internet. At the same time, the site’…
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This Big Beef Exposes The Ugly Underbelly of Vegan Vlogging
"“Many people suing for harassment have tried to find exemptions under the CDA,” said Daphne Keller, director of intermediary liability at Stanford Univers…
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Fake News, Hate Speech and Social Media Abuse: What’s the Solution?
"Underpinning the moves by the social media companies is a law (section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) that that gives them “a modicum of legal pro…
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It’s time to get rid of the Facebook “news feed,” because it’s not news
"Facebook's highly personalized algorithmic curation of its users' newsfeeds falls in a legal gray area with respect to CDA 230. As you know, CDA 2…
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MySpace Is Not Liable for Third Party Content and Has No Duty to Protect Users from Sexual Assault
Plaintiffs, Jane Doe and her daughter, Julie Doe, filed suit against Defendants, MySpace, Inc. and its parent company, News Corporation, for the role MySpace pl…