Filtering out free speech
In a landmark ruling earlier this month, India’s Supreme Court held that citizens’ right to freedom of speech and rights to carry out business using the interne…
In a landmark ruling earlier this month, India’s Supreme Court held that citizens’ right to freedom of speech and rights to carry out business using the interne…
"People would be allowed to use pseudonyms when posting online, but platforms could be forced to hand out the users’ private information to third parties,…
"The complicating factor for the President in this case is that, well, he is the President. Not only that, but he uses his account to conduct government bu…
"“Be mad at tech, that’s understandable,” Alex Feerst, head of legal policy for the online publishing site Medium, said at a recent event on the “unintenti…
The latest in the EU's string of internet regulatory efforts has a new target: terrorist propaganda. Just as with past regulations, the proposed rules seem…
"Some cyberlaw experts fear a ruling against Grindr will put the creativity of the internet as we know it at risk. They say that requiring platforms to mor…
"One of the most concrete examples is the potential unmasking of anonymous accounts, said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington whose…
"Neil Richards, a professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis specializing in information law, told The Post that asking a judge to decid…
"This is where the context of the internet starts to matter. The law assumes a narrow notion of fame—not a world where a YouTube channel’s following can ri…
"The Diet Madison Avenue suit, filed in Los Angeles, named the account and a string of Jane and John Does, representing dozens of people it believed were a…
"Indeed, as Europe is pushing for more and more use of platforms to censor, it's important that someone gets them to understand how these plans almost…
"The agreement is "good for free speech and for our democracy," said Neil Richards, a professor at Washington University Law School who specializ…