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Hate Speech
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Media Law Prof Blog
EU Commissioner For Justice May Suggest Regulation For Facebook, Other Social Media, To Control Hate Speech
The Guardian reports that the EU Commissioner for Justice and Consumers is displeased with news of Cambridge Analytica's use of data obtained from Facebook and may propose that the EU abandon…
Market Intelligence for Strategic Advantage
Today in Legal Artificial Intelligence
In so many ways, technology is outpacing regulation, but this week's questioning of Mark Zuckerberg has many wondering whether the US Congress is capable of intelligently crafting such regulations. They…
The Faculty Lounge
Guest Post by Tobias Barrington Wolff: The Provocateur’s Toolbox
The following is a guest post by Tobias Barrington Wolff, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School: If there is one person who embodies the figure of the provocateur…
Media Law Prof Blog
Alkiviadou on Regulating Hate Speech in the EU @NatalieAlk
Natalie Alkiviadou, University of Central Lancashire, UCLan, Cyprus, has published Regulating Hate Speech in the EU in Online Hate Speech in the European Union. A Discourse-Analytic Perspective: Springer briefs in…
Socially Aware Blog
Social Links: Facebook ups its facial recognition game; retracing Twitter’s 2017 missteps; YouTube stars’ fan bases reach their saturation point
In order to comply with a new German law requiring social media sites to take down hate speech, Twitter and Facebook removed anti-Islamic social media posts authored by a German…
The Right Coast
After student hangs Kate Steinle posters, university’s bias response office launches probe – The College Fix
A student at the University of California San Diego has been contacted to report to its Office for the Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination after hanging pro-Kate Steinle posters across…
Socially Aware Blog
Social Links: Twitter’s tougher anti-hate-speech policy; tech-industry-friendlier version of bill to narrow the §230 safe harbor; 2017’s top posts
In an effort to deter hate groups from tweeting sanitized versions of their messages, Twitter has began considering account holders’ off platform behavior when the platform evaluates whether potentially harmful…
PrawfsBlawg
Nazis and free speech
Main Sunday, December 10, 2017Nazis and free speechApropos of nothing: Nazis are the focal point for all sides in the debate over free speech. Those seeking a narrower approach to…
The Right Coast
Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos from far-right U.K. figure – POLITICO
President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared a series of videos with his Twitter followers portraying Muslims as violent and dangerous, drawing condemnation from British Prime Minister Theresa May's office.All three…
The Right Coast
Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos from far-right U.K. figure – POLITICO
President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared a series of videos with his Twitter followers portraying Muslims as violent and dangerous, drawing condemnation from British Prime Minister Theresa May's office.All three…