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...
Apologies if I’m not being appropriately empathetic, but I think lawsuits alleging that Internet giants are biased against conservatives are stupid and counterproductive. They are premised on factually unsupportable assertions of bias, and most of these plaintiffs would enthusiastically cheer such...
In March 2018, a District Court in West Bengal convicted an engineering student for sharing intimate videos of his ex-girlfriend on a porn website.[1]The court convicted the accused under Sections 354A, 354C, 354D, 509 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’) and Sections 66C and 66E of the...
Along with the announcement of the dates for Lok Sabha Elections for 2019, the Election Commission (EC) has also announced basic guidelines for the use of social media by the 2019 candidates. From Firstpost.
The Information Technology Act, 2000 ("IT Act") defines an "intermediary" to be a person1 who receives, stores, transmits or provides any service with respect to an electronic record2 on behalf of another. From Mondaq.
This is an extraordinary opinion. I can’t recall another opinion where the judge so candidly admits that he made both procedural and substantive mistakes. As troubling as those mistakes were, it actually gives me great confidence to see a judge correct his mistakes so forthrightly! From Technology &...
Dear Secretary of State,
We write to you as civil society organisations who work to promote human rights, both offline and online. As such, we are taking a keen interest in the government’s focus on tackling unlawful and harmful online content, particularly since the publication of the Internet...
"No other sentence in the U.S. Code," technology scholar David Post has written, "has been responsible for the creation of more value than" a little-known provision of the Communications Decency Act called Section 230. But in January, President Donald Trump's technology adviser Abigail Slater sugges...
On Feb. 25, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral argument in Force v. Facebook, a case about whether Facebook can be held liable for the use of its platform to coordinate and encourage violent attacks by users linked to Hamas. From Lawfare Blog.
Facebook has warned that “unprecedented” proposals by Australia’s competition watchdog aimed at protecting publishers from digital disruption would hurt consumers and advertisers, while doing nothing to make journalism more sustainable. From Financial Times.
The Karnataka High Court has issued notice in a petition seeking that video streaming platforms Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hotstar, YouTube and AltBalaji, be brought under the Cinematograph Act and obtain certificates from the Censor Board before streaming content. From Medianama.