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Should Facebook Ads Be Regulated Like TV Commercials?
"But Andrew McLaughlin, the cofounder of Higher Ground Labs, a company that invests in technology to help progressive candidates, believes that platforms s…
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The far right is losing its ability to speak freely online. Should the left defend it?
"“Historically, the place you went to exercise your speech rights was the public square. Now the equivalent is Twitter and YouTube and Facebook,” said Daph…
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Fair use in the digital house of mirrors . . .
In today's highly digitized world, copyright infringement actions, among others, are often brought against alleged infringers using information culled from…
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This Big Beef Exposes The Ugly Underbelly of Vegan Vlogging
"“Many people suing for harassment have tried to find exemptions under the CDA,” said Daphne Keller, director of intermediary liability at Stanford Univers…
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Why the alt-right can’t build an alt-internet
"Registrars need to be established companies that can demonstrate technical capability and financial stability. If they want to offer recognized domains ex…
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Hate on the Web: Does banning neo-Nazi websites raise free-speech issues for the rest of us?
"“This part of the Charlottesville story makes people think about who controls speech on the Internet,” says Daphne Keller of Stanford Law School’s Center…
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Discord, Gab, Hatreon: how the US extreme right is organized. on the Internet to distribute neo-Nazi materials and circumvent the Silicon Valley blockade
"For Morgan Weiland, PhD candidate and junior associate researcher at the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School, the discussion is very…
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Facebook, Airbnb Go on Offense Against Nazis After Violence
"That doesn’t mean these companies aren’t feeling the pressure from advertisers and users who fear that pages belonging to alt-right publications like the…
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Tech Firms Break From Hands-Off Approach With Bans on White Supremacists
""The number of net intermediaries acting as gatekeepers has increased," since GoDaddy booted Daily Stormer, said Daphne Keller, who studies plat…
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The Daily Stormer, Online Speech, and Internet Registrars
Most people I talk to think that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies should take down ugly-but-legal user speech. Platforms are generally applau…
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Should web-hosting companies restrict who's on their platforms?
""Legally, they don't have any responsibility around this, unless it's a federal crime [such as child pornography] or intellectual property,&q…
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More U.S. companies push back on foreign must-store-data-here rule
"“Part of what made the Internet always great and the reason why it’s blossomed is because it was always decentralized and not subject to heavy-handed regu…