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Nunes faces tough odds with Twitter lawsuit
""The bottom line of the case is that its legal merits barely matter, because the point is political theater," Daphne Keller, the director of int…
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Why the New Zealand Shooting Video Keeps Circulating
"Ultimately, the use case for purely AI-driven content moderation is fairly narrow, says Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liability at the Stanf…
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One year after Zuckerberg’s testimony about violent content on Facebook, has anything changed?
"“I don’t think it’s an impossible task. It’s a hard task, and it depends on the defaults we want to live with,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Mary…
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Dutch Data Protection Authority chips away at ‘cookie walls,’ declaring they violate GDPR
"“There’s been a lot of confusion in [the] industry, and ambiguity in regulatory interpretation, concerning the adapting of online content distribution and…
Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet
When Facebook started 15 years ago, it didn’t set out to adjudicate the speech rights of 2.2 billion people. Twitter never asked to decide which of the 500 mill…
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Pinterest Blocks Vaccination Searches in Move to Control the Conversation
"“There’s a secretive process with no real appeal where people are making extremely difficult subjective calls that have to do with politics, culture and r…
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New EU rules on video-sharing platforms: will they really work?
The new EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) has been officially adopted and published. it is now time for member States to start the process of inco…
Will India trade privacy for protection?
In this episode, The Stream speaks with tech industry experts and policy analysts to explore whether the Indian government’s plan will ensure public safety or s…
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You've Been Sued In The E.U. For Copying A "Short Extract"!
You are CEO of Google. When you wake up tomorrow morning, your general counsel calls you: "we've been sued in the E.U. for copyright infringement! The…
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The gloomy saga of Article 13 just got a whole lot worse
"“Article 13 creates more or less limitless liability with extraordinarily narrow exemptions,” says Annemarie Bridy, an academic intellectual property and…
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Submission Regarding the Draft IT Intermediaries Guidelines Proposed in India
The present submission has the object of providing comments and recommendations regarding a very specific provision included in the document mentioned in the ti…
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Despite 'transparency' claims, Facebook stops watchdogs from monitoring ads
"The propublica tool, much like ours, was aimed to provide users with valuable information about political ads to help shed more light on a process that ha…