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Supreme Court Hints That Trump Can’t Legally Block You on Twitter
""It's to the credit of these companies that they have—without admitting it in court—taken the responsibility of the custodians of public debate,&…
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Twitter users, blocked by Trump, cry censorship
"Morgan Weiland, an affiliate scholar with Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, says the blocked tweeters’ complaint could air key questi…
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Trump's Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
""The question of whether the President’s Twitter feed is a public forum is a more complicated question," says Neil Richards, a professor at Wash…
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US government drops effort to unmask anti-Trump Twitter account
"“The anonymous account holder is safe, for now,” said Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “…
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Government seeks to unmask Trump dissident on Twitter, lawsuit reveals
"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, called the government’s behavior “craven” and described…
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Trump & Co. Just Picked the Wrong Fight With Twitter
"“It seems like the government lied to Twitter about why it wanted the information,” says Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Cen…
Weaponized Twitter: Terror in 140 Characters or Less
When a Texas grand jury this week indicted the man accused of causing journalist Kurt Eichenwald to have a seizure, experts said it was perhaps the first time t…
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Seizure-inducing tweet leads to a new kind of prosecution
"“What is new, because of the technology, is the ease with which certain individuals can be targeted across state lines by remotely distant perpetrators,”…
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Twitter to police abuse in major shift
""Twitter has been proceeding carefully and thoughtfully in thinking through and rolling out tools designed to help harassment victims," said Uni…
Follow Buddies and Block Buddies: A Simple Proposal to Improve Civility, Control, and Privacy on Twitter
The 2016 election has put squarely on the public agenda a series of questions related to the norms of social media, everything from the proliferation of fake ne…
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…
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…