On May 11, 2022, the Fifth Circuit reinstated Texas state law HB 20 which allows private parties to sue tech platforms with 50M+ MAUs for their censorship of user-generated content based on “the viewpoint of a user or another person”. On May 13, technology lobbying groups NetChoice and the Computer...
Six months ago, as the pandemic raged, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris became President and Vice President of the United States. On inauguration day, we launched the U.S. Digital Rights in the Biden Era tracker to hold the administration and Congress accountable for defending human rights on tech policy...
Former President Donald Trump has filed proposed class action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google subsidiary YouTube as well as CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai. The lawsuits come six months after Trump was permanently or temporarily suspended from all three platforms...
A discussion between Eric Goldman, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law, and Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law at UCLA, on if and how legislatures could regulate Internet services. Read more at Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog.
In a hearing on her nomination for Commerce Department secretary on Tuesday, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo told lawmakers that she will pursue changes to Section 230 if confirmed. Biden said he wanted to revoke the law last year. Read more at The Verge.
Section 230 became a favorite punching bag of President Trump’s in the past year. But the law’s days may be numbered even though Joe Biden will be president. Democrats also think the law should be amended, but for different reasons: Tech companies should be held more responsible for moderating...
Platform regulation has a real shot at passage this cycle of the U.S. Congress. After a year of “unserious, undemocratic and unconstitutional” proposals to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Stanford’s Keller proposes that lawmakers look to Europe for inspiration. Read more at The...
In the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Verge invited Daphne Keller, director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, to join the Decoder podcast to discuss where content moderation goes after Facebook and Twitter banned Trump. Listen to the podcast...
Last week’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship issued by President Trump comes at a tense time in global politics and in the struggle to assert power over social media platforms. From MediaLaws.
Bashing social media for supposed liberal bias has become pretty standard fare for some conservative pundits and politicians. From Public Knowledge.