First Amendment and FX Triumph in “Feud” Right of Publicity Case
In a big win for free speech, the California Court of Appeal has rejected Olivia de Havilland’s right of publicity and false light claims against FX. The court’…
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Reddit bans ‘deepfakes,’ pornography using the faces of celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Gal Gadot
"“It falls through the cracks because it’s all very betwixt and between,” Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and cyberspace exp…
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People Can Put Your Face on Porn—and the Law Can't Help You
"And it's the very artifice involved in these videos that provides enormous legal cover for their creators. “It falls through the cracks because it’s a…
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Blocked and banned by social media: When is it censorship?
"Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, compared social networks to town squares of centuries past — an analog…
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Discord, Gab, Hatreon: how the US extreme right is organized. on the Internet to distribute neo-Nazi materials and circumvent the Silicon Valley blockade
"For Morgan Weiland, PhD candidate and junior associate researcher at the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School, the discussion is very…
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Tech Firms Break From Hands-Off Approach With Bans on White Supremacists
""The number of net intermediaries acting as gatekeepers has increased," since GoDaddy booted Daily Stormer, said Daphne Keller, who studies plat…
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Did the Department of Justice Request Detailed Information About All Visitors to an Anti-Trump Website?
"Albert Gidari, Director of Privacy for the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, told us he agrees with the EFF’s argument: Asking for…
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Should web-hosting companies restrict who's on their platforms?
""Legally, they don't have any responsibility around this, unless it's a federal crime [such as child pornography] or intellectual property,&q…
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To thwart the trolls, social-media sites should require users' real names
"“Trolling is a terrible problem,” acknowledged Ryan Calo, an assistant law professor at the University of Washington who specializes in technology issues.…
Trump Twitter Lawsuit Raises First Amendment Issues For Politics On Social Media
President Trump has blocked Twitter followers on his personal feed--raising questions, and a lawsuit, about first amendment rights on social media. An expert o…
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Facebook among tech firms battling gag orders over government surveillance
"“Twitter wants to be able to report the precise number so that users understand it’s not a continuing stream of hundreds of accounts being monitored,” sai…
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Supreme Court Hints That Trump Can’t Legally Block You on Twitter
""It's to the credit of these companies that they have—without admitting it in court—taken the responsibility of the custodians of public debate,&…