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What Does the New CDA-Buster Legislation Actually Say?
Alarm bells are sounding around the Internet about proposed changes to one of the US’s core Intermediary Liability laws, Communications Decency Act Section 230…
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California Court of Appeal Overturns Dangerous Right of Publicity Ruling
Almost all posts on social media include depictions of real people. And most social media websites include advertising. Does this combination mean that nearly e…
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Google's US Challenge to the Canadian Global Delisting Order
In its Equustek ruling in June, the Canadian Supreme Court held that Google must delete search results for users everywhere in the world, based on Canadian law.…
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A white man called her kids the n-word. Facebook stopped her from sharing it.
"The coalition has gathered 570,000 signatures urging Facebook to acknowledge discriminatory censorship exists on its platform, that it harbors white supre…
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Kharitonov v Russia Will Set Boundaries for Constitutionally Acceptable Website (Over)Blocking
The European Court of Human Rights will soon hear a key case on website blocking and freedom of expression online - Kharitonov v Russia (app no. 10795/14). The…
Trump Twitter Lawsuit Raises First Amendment Issues For Politics On Social Media
President Trump has blocked Twitter followers on his personal feed--raising questions, and a lawsuit, about first amendment rights on social media. An expert o…
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A ruling against Google in Canada could affect free speech around the world
"But Canada’s Supreme Court has flipped this script with its globally-binding ruling. Daphne Keller, a director of Stanford University’s Center for Interne…
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Ominous: Canadian Court Orders Google to Remove Search Results Globally
The Canadian Supreme Court this morning issued its long-awaited ruling in Equustek. The court upheld an order compelling Google to remove search results for spe…
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“Tool Without a Handle: Reflections on 20 years from Reno v. ACLU”
On 26 June 1997, in Reno v ACLU,[1] the US Supreme Court decided the fate of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”), insofar as it criminalized the intentional…
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In terror fight, tech companies caught between US and European ideals
"“It’s so easy to point to the need for internet companies to do more that that becomes a real rallying cry,” says Daphne Keller, the director of Intermedi…
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What Packingham v. North Carolina Should Mean for the DMCA
The US Supreme Court issued opinions in two important First Amendment cases this week, one of which obviously had to do with intellectual property law (Matal v.…
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BREIN v. Ziggo: The Pirate Bay Dies Again
The Pirate Bay (TPB), that perennial nemesis of copyright holders, is on the ropes again following the CJEU's decision this week in BREIN v. Ziggo. BREIN, t…