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Remember That Time We Saved the Internet?
My Twitter feed tells me that today is the fifth anniversary of the day the Internet “went dark” in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect…
Intermediary Liability
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Using Transparency to Fight Takedown Trolls – A Model from the DMCA
The Internet is full of trolls. So it’s no surprise that notice and takedown systems for online speech attract their fair share of them – people insisting that…
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DMCA Counter-Notice: Does It Work to Correct Erroneous Takedowns?
This blog post is excerpted from our filing in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's 2016 Notice and Request for Public Comment on notice and takedown pra…
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Tool Without a Handle: "Trustworthy Tools"
“Tool Without a Handle: Trustworthy Tools” “’What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, who did not stay for an answer.” – Francis Bacon, Of Truth (Essays, Civil an…
Facebook and Falsehood
After the election, many people blamed Facebook for spreading partisan — and largely pro-Trump — "fake news," like Pope Francis’s endorsement of Trump…
Internet Giants Face Lawsuits for Terrorism Liability
Rebecca Tushnet, professor at Georgetown university law school, and Andrea Matwyshyn, Professor of Law at Northeastern University, discuss one lawsuit against G…
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Tool Without a Handle: "A Dust Cloud of Nonsense"
Tool Without a Handle: “A Dust Cloud of Nonsense” On October 30, 1938, the “Mercury Theater on the Air” broadcast a radio drama adaptation of H.G. Wells’ scie…
Why it's dangerous to outsource our critical thinking to computers
The lack of transparency around the processes of Google’s search engine has been a preoccupation among scholars since the company began. Long before Google expa…
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The political fight behind Facebook and Google’s new terrorist content database
"“[The database] is definitely responsive to what’s going on in Europe,” says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, who specializ…
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CEIPI Opinion on a EU Proposal for a Neighboring Right for Press Publishers Online
At CEIPI, I have co-authored with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko a position paper discussing the proposed introduction in EU law of neighboring right…
Facebook Must Stay Out of China
Andrew McLaughlin, technology executive: Though it has been evident for years that Mark Zuckerberg really, really wants Facebook to operate in China, I’m genui…
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Global Right to Be Forgotten Delisting: Why CNIL is Wrong
The French Data Protection Agency, CNIL, is currently before a French court, arguing that Google needs to do more to comply with “Right to Be Forgotten” or “Rig…