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U.S. Government Takes Unprecedented Action Against Revenge Porn
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, took a sligh…
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Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Abstract: Most people believe that privacy and free speech are always at odds. People all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of m…
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Je Suis Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg's Post Raises Free Speech Questions
"Implementing a pro-speech policy internationally has its own challenges because — even in the West — there is not a unified legal approach to protecting f…
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Social networks crack down on terror posts
"Marvin Ammori, a 1st Amendment scholar and a fellow at the New America Foundation, said social media networks have to grapple with being the modern town s…
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Foley video, photos being scrubbed from Twitter
"Andrew McLaughlin was the director of global public policy for Google from 2004 to 2009, and served as a deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United Sta…
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Twitter's top legal executive steps down in surprise move
""I think they're really aware of themselves as being a place for discussion, news and sometimes for dissent," said Ryan Calo, a law professo…
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Ninth Circuit Rules That Celebrity "Rights" Trump Free Speech
Cross-posted from EFF. Should a minor celebrity's right to wring every drop he can from his fame trump the right to create a realistic work? The Ninth Circ…
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Free Speech Architecture: Normative Aspects (#8)
Cross posted from Marvin Ammori's post at Concurring Opinions. In seven posts (available here), I have set out the arguments in First Amendment Architectur…
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Free Speech Architecture: Universal Access to Speech Spaces (#7)
Cross posted from Marvin Ammori's post at Concurring Opinions. So far I have discussed four principles concerning speech spaces (and Brett has added one).…
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Distinguishing Magarian’s “Ought” from Ammori’s “Ought”
Cross posted from Marvin Ammori's post at Concurring Opinions. Timothy Zick and Greg Magarian make some great points in their recent posts. For those unfam…
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Free Speech Architecture: Spaces for National & Local Speech (#6)
Cross posted from Marvin Ammori's post at Concurring Opinions. At our nation’s founding, the framers of the Constitution faced a formidable challenge: crea…
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Free Speech Architecture: Access for Diverse & Antagonistic Sources (#5)
Cross posted from Marvin Ammori's post at Concurring Opinions. In the previous posts, I argued that First Amendment precedent guarantees minimal access to…