Techdirt Podcast Episode 248: The Most Serious Threat To Section 230
Attacks on Section 230 are relentless and coming from all sides — so we've got another podcast all about the attempts to ruin the most important law on the…
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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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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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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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Section 230: The little law that defined how the Internet works
"Section 230 “gave companies the go-ahead to launch every single technical intermediary that you depend on for Internet communication,” said Daphne Keller,…
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IBM, Marriott and Mickey Mouse Take On Tech’s Favorite Law
"“People are either mad at tech companies and, legitimately in some cases, want to constrain their power for a lot of reasons,” said Daphne Keller, a profe…
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US debate on internet liability spills over to global trade deals
"Danielle Citron, a Boston University law professor specializing in online speech, said Section 230 has failed to live up to its promise and that modifying…
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Big Tech’s Favorite Legal Shield Is in Danger
"Daphne Keller, an expert on Internet liability at Stanford University, says only a very small portion of the “bad” content on Facebook would be barred if…
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As Marc Benioff Calls For A Better World, Salesforce Lawyers Are Doing The Opposite
"Were Section 230 to be abolished, as Benioff wants, it might actually hurt Facebook’s competitors more than it would hurt Facebook — not exactly the outco…
The stubborn, misguided myth that Internet platforms must be ‘neutral’
Lately, politicians and news sources have been repeating a persistent myth about, of all things, technology law. The myth concerns a provision of the 1996 Commu…
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The strange story of Section 230, the obscure law that created our flawed, broken internet
"“Its role in enabling a certain kind of technical innovation is unambiguous,” says Daphne Keller at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.…