Content Moderation: How it Works, Why it Works and Best Practices
The role of a content moderator is to be both a judge and a janitor of the internet, according to Alex Feerst, general counsel at Neuralink. In a Broadband Bre…
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Everything You Need to Know About Section 230: A 5 Part Series -- Panel V: A Future without 230
Everything You Need to Know About Section 230: A Five Part Series -- Panel V: Imagining the Future without 230 Webinar V/V: Imagining the Future without 230 F…
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The Technology 202: Lawmakers unveil bipartisan proposal to make social media moderation more transparent
"Danielle Citron, a professor the Boston University School of Law, has long argued that Section 230 should not be a “free pass,” but rather contingent on c…
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There’s Now an Even Worse Anti-Encryption Bill Than EARN IT. That Doesn’t Make the EARN IT Bill OK.
On Tuesday, June 23, Senators Graham (R-SC), Cotton (R-AR), and Blackburn (R-TN) introduced a bill that is a full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the U…
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Without Section 230, Tech Platforms Would be Afraid to Either Leave Content Up or Take it Down, Say Panelists
"Daphne Keller, director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center Program on Platform Regulation, agreed with the value of allowing companies to form their own…
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Americans Want Transparency In Content Moderation Decisions On Social Media
"“Every platform can have a right to its own editorial policy up until the point where they're the only platform, or close enough to being the only pla…
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Washington's rush to smash tech's liability protection
"The DOJ proposals "would seriously curtail platforms' ability to moderate content and respond quickly to emerging problems — like new kinds of ab…
Amicus Brief of Cybersecurity Experts in Support of Malwarebytes' Cert Petition
Amicus brief in support of petitioner Malwarebytes' petition for certiorari in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software, authored by Phil Malone of the Juelsgaard IP…
Security Experts' Letter on Transparency in Terrorist Content Regulation
This June 2020 letter from security researchers and practitioners urges that EU lawmakers finalizing the Terrorist Content Regulation preserve robust transparen…
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Facebook Should Face Liability Over Ads, House Democrat Says
"“If half of the potential votes in Congress want to change this to push in the direction of more removals and the other half wants to change to push in th…
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Sharing is caring, unless it’s misinformation
"Ryan Calo is an investigator with the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. He says there's a reason why false information is ever…
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The Battle Over Free Speech Online Is a Volcano That’s Ready to Blow
"However, Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, suggested there was no quid pro quo in…