Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power Over Online Speech
This essay closely examines the effect on free-expression rights when platforms such as Facebook or YouTube silence their users’ speech. The first part describe…
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Online Speech Rights and the Supreme Court's Pending Halleck Case
I have a new article coming out, called Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power over Online Speech. It is about free expression rights on platforms like…
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Tool Without A Handle: A Mere Gallimaufry
Tool Without A Handle: “A Mere Gallimaufry” This blog has spent a good deal of real estate discussing networked information technologies as tools, but has not…
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Fake Porn Videos Are Terrorizing Women. Do We Need a Law to Stop Them?
"This raises the question of whether Congress could draft a law narrow enough to help victims of deepfakes without such unintended consequences. As a cauti…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 195: The EU Endangers Free Speech Online... Again
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…
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A Man Sent 1,000 Men Expecting Sex And Drugs To His Ex-Boyfriend Using Grindr, A Lawsuit Say
"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…
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GDPR Will Pick Up Momentum In 2019
"“For a reform of this scope and magnitude, it’s only expected that several months will pass before enforcement comes into focus,” said Omer Tene, VP and c…
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Tool Without A Handle: Tools For Meaning, Part 2
“Tool Without A Handle”: Tools and the Search for Meaning – Part II If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but t…
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Online Anti-Piracy Enforcement and the Normalization of Public-Private Speech Regulation
In response to a global backlash in the wake of Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election, dominant tech companies are scrambling to stave off increased gove…
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Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies
"“Ultimately, regulators and courts will have to decide what is the right balance between individuals’ privacy concerns and businesses’ interest to pursue…
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As Americans Vote, Facebook Struggles With Misinformation
"“I think they are really struggling and that’s not surprising, because it’s a very hard problem,” said Daphne Keller, who used to be on Google’s legal tea…
The Privacy Professional: A Modern Day Renaissance Man
Hollywood writers could not have scripted it better. Merely a month before the implementation date of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May this…