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Content Moderation
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The Right Coast
Facebook Has a Right to Block ‘Hate Speech’ But Here s Why It Shouldn t – Quillette
In late August, I wrote a note to my then-colleagues at Facebook about the issues I saw with political diversity inside the company. You may have read it, because someone…
The Right Coast
Facebook, Twitter Turn to Right-Leaning Groups to Help Referee Political Speech – WSJ
The world s biggest social-media companies, under fire for failing to police content on their sites, have invited an array of outside groups to help them figure out who should…
Media Law Prof Blog
Keller on Internet Platforms: Observations on Speech, Danger, and Money @daphnehk @StanfordCIS
Daphne Keller, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, has published Internet Platforms: Observations on Speech, Danger, and Money as Hoover Institution's Aegis Paper Series; 1807 (2018). Here is…
Media Law Prof Blog
Aswad on The Future of Freedom of Expression Online
Evelyn Aswad, University of Oklahoma College of Law, is publishing The Future of Freedom of Expression Online in the Duke Law & Technology Review. Here is the abstract.Should social media…
The Right Coast
Facebook Blocks Bad News About Itself as ‘Spam’ | Breitbart
Facebook has blocked users from posting articles from the Guardian the AP about the social media platform s latest user data breach, marking them as spam. The company later reversed decision, which…
The Right Coast
Twitter CEO says Infowars’ Alex Jones not banned because ‘he hasn’t violated our rules’
While tech giants Facebook, YouTube and Apple booted content by conspiracy theorist and far-right radio host Alex Jones this week, one company resisted purging him from its platform: Twitter.Now, after…
The Right Coast
The InfoWars Bans Are About Big Tech s Control Over What We See
But this isn t about whether you like Jones or think he s a reprehensible human being. Rather, this is about what it means for our society if a few…
The Right Coast
Facebook Algorithm Flags, Removes Declaration of Independence Text as Hate Speech – Hit & Run : Reason.com
America's founding document might be too politically incorrect for Facebook, which flagged and removed a post consisting almost entirely of text from the Declaration of Independence. The excerpt, posted by…
The Right Coast
Facebook Deplatforms Diamond and Silk Because They’re ‘Unsafe’
Facebook has been censoring the pro-Trump comedy duo Diamond and Silk, supposedly out of concern that they are "unsafe to the community," but more likely because they are two funny…
Family Law Prof Blog
No More Personals on Craigslist
By Family Law
From CNN:The service announced on Friday it will no longer operate the portion of its website that allows individuals to seek encounters with strangers.The move comes two days after the…