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The summer of hate speech
"“Users are calling on online platforms to provide a moral code,” says Daphne Keller, director of the intermediary liability project at Stanford’s Center f…
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The Trouble with Farming Out DMCA Takedown Notices to Bots
"The Recorder affiliate Legaltech News recently caught up with one of the forefront experts in both DMCA and automated notice sending, Annemarie Bridy, a U…
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Trump complains about bias on Twitter and Google — but what can he do about it? 8 experts weigh in.
"We don’t have nearly enough information to see the big picture and know what speech platforms are taking down. For the most part, we only find out when th…
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Trump plays to the base with attack on ‘rigged’ Google searches
"Any effort to regulate social media companies and search engines would run up against a bevy of constitutional free speech questions. Legally, Trump doesn…
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Can Trump Stop Twitter from Enforcing Its Own Speech Rules? Not Likely.
Are Internet platforms distorting our political discourse by silencing conservatives? If they were, could Congress pass a law forcing them to play fair? The fi…
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The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People
"Danielle Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and a professor at the University of Maryland’s law school, told Motherboard that Facebook’s “oh shit…
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Schools are using AI to track what students write on their computers
"“There should be a whole gradation of how this [software] should work,” Daphne Keller, the director of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (and m…
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Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter veto the paranoid extreme right. Is it good news?
(Google Translated) "For attorney Ryan E. Long, who specializes in intellectual property cases on the Internet, platforms such as Facebook can not justify…
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Can We Count on Facebook and Google to Police the ‘Modern-Day Town Square’?
"These companies “fulfill a roll that approximates a public square,” Geoffrey King, professor of media studies at UC Berkeley, told TheWrap. “It’s a really…
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Win or Lose, the Alex Jones Lawsuit Will Help Redefine Free Speech
"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…
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No, tech giants are not censoring Alex Jones
"Annemarie Bridy, an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University echoed that, telling the Daily Dot that “the First Ame…
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Lawmakers Don't Grasp the Sacred Tech Law They Want to Gut
"Nowhere in the statute does it say that tech companies are prohibited from making editorial decisions if they want Section 230 protections. Quite the oppo…