Platform laws too often use terms like "design" or "risk mitigation” as euphemisms for mandates that target legally protected expression. When asked GPT about them, its answers said that quiet part out loud.
This is the second in a hopefully finite series of blog posts about the legal issues in the NetChoice cases, in which platforms raise First Amendment challe…
The Supreme Court is about to review a constitutional challenge to two unprecedented and very complicated laws regulating social media. The laws were enacte…
One of the least appreciated transparency measures in the EU’s new Digital Services Act (DSA) is the requirement for platforms to send the Commission informatio…
Recently, Wired reported on documents leaked in May from the Council of the European Union’s ongoing deliberations over the draft Child Sex Abuse Regulation. Th…
Beliefs and expectations about what data platforms have at their fingertips vary wildly. That is about to matter a great deal, once new rules in the EU allowing…
Recently, I wrote for Lawfare about Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)’s new STOP CSAM Act bill, S.1199. The bill text is available here. There are a lot of moving parts i…
In early 2022 I was asked to write a brief statement on an academic vision for AI ethics. As this topic has become only more important in the year since, I thou…
A new article, written in 2022 and published in 2023 -- with pictures! The article asks a leading AI tool for image generation to illustrate the facts of a lea…
In early 2022 I was asked to write a brief statement on an academic vision for AI ethics. As this topic has become only more important in the year since, I thou…
I. Intro Artificial intelligence (“AI”) use has blossomed. The AI market was valued at $27.3 in 2019 and is projected to grow to $266.92 billion b…
Pretty much everyone wants better information about how platforms propagate and govern online speech. We are probably about to get it. A major pending EU law wi…