Congress's sloppy new internet bill is a step in the wrong direction
Most observers cheered when the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer was booted from YouTube, CloudFlare, and other platforms around the Internet. At the same time, the site’…
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Cleaning Up The Dirty
"“Richie is taking advantage of what I’d understand as something like a liminal state,” said law professor Danielle Citron, who wrote the book Hate Crimes…
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Who Is Responsible for Stopping Live-Streamed Crimes?
""I can't imagine Facebook knowing about [illegal content] and not taking it down," said Daphne Keller, the Director of Intermediary Liabilit…
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Internet firms’ legal immunity is under threat
"In May a court allowed a lawsuit to proceed against Model Mayhem, a network that connects models and photographers, for having failed to warn users that r…
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Fake News, Hate Speech and Social Media Abuse: What’s the Solution?
"Underpinning the moves by the social media companies is a law (section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) that that gives them “a modicum of legal pro…
Assault With a Deadly Tweet?
Social media has raised tricky questions that judges are beginning to try to answer. It’s been found possible to violate a restraining order by becoming an unwa…
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Outed Ashley Madison users want to make stolen data legally toxic
"“Are these sites exacerbating an already harmful situation. Yes,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a privacy law expert at Samford University. “But that doesn’t mean…
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New site, just in time to play around.
We have a new site here at CIS and it's tripped out with a number of cool features. I'm going to play with the tagging and will do my best to figure out…