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Content Moderation
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The CLS Blue Sky Blog
What Meta’s Oversight Board Tells Us About the Prospects for Self-Regulatory Dispute Settlement
By Laurence R. Helfer, Molly K. Land
Should private social media companies have a free hand in deciding what content to allow on their platforms? Governments from the European Union to India to the U.S. states of…
6G: A Step Beyond
The Internet Under Siege: The Future of Section 230?
On October 3, 2022, the Supreme Court granted cert in Gonzalez v. Google, marking the first time that the Court will consider the scope of Section 230. As discussed previously…
Global Policy Watch
Fifth Circuit Upholds Texas Law Restricting Online “Censorship”
By Terrell McSweeny, Megan Crowley, Nicholas Xenakis
By Terrell McSweeny, Megan Crowley, Nicholas Xenakis, Alexandra Cooper-Ponte & Madeline Salinas on September 28, 2022 On September 16, the Fifth Circuit issued its decision in NetChoice L.L.C. v. Paxton, upholding Texas HB 20, a law that limits the…
PrawfsBlawg
A state could stop this in the Fifth Circuit
Main Tuesday, September 20, 2022A state could stop this in the Fifth CircuitI have not had much to say about the Fifth Circuit's abomination in NetChoice. (Mike Masnick at TechDirt…
PrawfsBlawg
Content Moderation in Jeopardy (or: that time the Fifth Circuit cited my platform law scholarship in a really bad decision)
Main Monday, September 19, 2022Content Moderation in Jeopardy (or: that time the Fifth Circuit cited my platform law scholarship in a really bad decision)The Fifth Circuit handed down a highly…
Simple Justice
Let The Fifth Circuit Come Get Me
From the sanitary perspective, it’s a bizarre decision lacking both sound rationale or respect for precedent. The Fifth Circuit got it wrong. Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the…
The Right Coast
Freedom Of Speech, And Freedom Of Reach : Elon Musk Tells Twitter Employees Users Should Be Able To Tweet Pretty Outrageous Things | The Daily Wire
Earlier this week, Musk made headlines for announcing that he voted for Mayra Flores a Mexican-American Republican congressional candidate who won a historically Democratic district in southern Texas. When questioned…
Ad Law Access
Insights into Texas’ Content Moderation Law
By Paul Singer, Beth Chun
On May 31, the US Supreme Court reinstated an injunction first implemented in December 2021 regarding HB 20, the Texas law prohibiting social media companies from certain content moderation based…
Inside Privacy
Online Safety Bill to Proceed Through Parliament
By Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen, Shona O'Donovan, Tomos Griffiths
On May 10, 2022, Prince Charles announced in the Queen’s Speech that the UK Government’s proposed Online Safety Bill (the “OSB”) will proceed through Parliament. The OSB is currently at…
Global Policy Watch
SECTION 230 IN A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
By Nicholas Xenakis, Bill Wichterman, Gabe Neville
Most observers expect the Republicans to take control of the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, in the upcoming midterm elections. While both Democrats and Republicans are likely to…