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Technology groups submit an emergency application to the Supreme Court to block Texas social media law HB 20

May 16, 2022

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...

Twitter’s Modi Operandi

February 24, 2021

India is not only the world’s largest democracy, it also accounts for the largest number of internet shutdowns and take down requests to social media companies globally.  The recent stand-off between Twitter and the Indian government over suspending more than a thousand accounts supportive of...

Indonesia’s Proposed Online Intermediary Regulation May be the Most Repressive Yet

February 16, 2021

Indonesia is the latest government to propose a legal framework to coerce social media platforms, apps, and other online service providers to accept local jurisdiction over their content and users’ data policies and practices. And in many ways, its proposal is the most invasive of human rights. Read...