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Content Moderation
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The Right Coast
The Complex Debate Over Silicon Valley s Embrace of Content Moderation – The New York Times
The existential question that every big tech platform from Twitter to Google to Facebook has to wrestle with is the same: How responsible should it act for the content that…
CommLaw Monitor
Section 230 Executive Order Strikes Back at Twitter, But Legal Impact Likely to be Limited
By Kelley Drye
In a move spurred by Twitter’s decision to fact-check a pair of President Trump’s tweets, the president recently signed a multi-pronged “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship” with the claimed…
Michael Geist
The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 53: Welcome Development or Waste of Time? – A Conversation With Facebook Oversight Board Member Nicolas Suzor
Last month, Facebook revealed the names of the first 20 members of the Facebook Oversight Board, a body charged with conducting independent reviews of content removals. The group includes many…
PrawfsBlawg
The remedy to be applied (Updated)
Main Friday, May 29, 2020The remedy to be applied (Updated)At the risk of spending more time taking seriously something fundamentally unserious.As I am coming to understand it, § 230(c) does…
Tom Mighell
The Friday Tech Fix – May 29, 2020
By Tom Mighell
Welcome to the Friday Tech Fix for May 29, 2020. As I mention over at my weekly newsletter, The Extra Mighell, this was a heck of a time to start blogging…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
President to Unveil Executive Order to Address CDA Section 230 Protections
UPDATE: On the afternoon of May 28, 2020, the President signed the executive order concerning CDA Section 230. A copy/link to the order has not yet been posted on the…
The Right Coast
Pelosi says Zuckerberg comments are a ‘disgrace’ | TheHill
As far as the platforms are concerned, they want two things from the federal government: no regulation and no taxes. And so they cater to the Trump administration all the…
The Right Coast
Twitter is digging its own grave
Now, however, they have claimed the title of content provider by providing editing services to tweets based on their own judgment. And that means they re responsible for every single…
Mike McBride Online
Some Things Defy Easy Answers
By Mike McBride
I was reading this article about the settlement Facebook reached with it’s moderators and I think this serves as a really good example of something where many people want an…
Michael Geist
After the Tech-Lash: Digital Policy Priorities in the Post-Pandemic World
In the months before the coronavirus outbreak, numerous governments around the world enthusiastically jumped on the “regulate tech” train. Digital tax proposals, content regulation requirements, national digital spending mandates, as…