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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,&…
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The Supreme Court Just Protected Your Right to Facebook
""The Supreme Court appropriately understood the importance of the internet to the way politics and free expression occur right now," says Neil R…
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The Texting Suicide Case Is About Crime, Not Tech
"And yet, according to Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, there are 21 crimes that have to do explicitly with speech—things lik…
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Twitter users, blocked by Trump, cry censorship
"Morgan Weiland, an affiliate scholar with Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, says the blocked tweeters’ complaint could air key questi…
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Trump's Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
""The question of whether the President’s Twitter feed is a public forum is a more complicated question," says Neil Richards, a professor at Wash…
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A Campus Murder Tests Facebook Clicks as Evidence of Hate
""These are not questions the law has had to answer before," says Neil Richards, a professor of First Amendment and privacy law at Washington Uni…