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...
On 4 December 2018 the European Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) found a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights in Magyar Jeti Zrt v. Hungary. The case concerns the imposition of objective liability for posting a hyperlink leading to defamatory content, with the Court...
NEW RULES PROPOSED by the Indian government to rein in tech giants and combat fake news could have a profoundly chilling effect on free speech and privacy online. From Wired.
The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), which owns the Amul brand has issued a legal notice to Google India and Godaddy.com for fraudulent practices on their platform by individuals and organizations. From Medianama.
When it came to our online lives, 2018 was revealing in its dysfunction.
The just-expired year’s parade of scandals at Facebook alone was relentless — Cambridge Analytica, its inflation of video-viewing stats that have been credited with convincing legacy media companies to “pivot to video” and...
Venezuela has blocked access to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, becoming only the second country after Turkey to do so, an internet watchdog claimed Sunday. From Haaretz.
This paper revisits current debates on the liability of internet intermediaries in India, in the context of violence against women online. Internet intermediaries can be described as entities that facilitate access to the internet or services on the internet (Association Progressive Communications...
Two important elements of U.S. law that protect internet intermediaries are reflected in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement(USMCA, signed November 30, 2018). From Global Trade Magazine.
In late 2016 and early 2017, hundreds of strangers began showing up at Matthew Herrick’s home and work in New York City, looking for sex. From The Outline,
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) is considering preventing cash flowing into hatred advertising on Facebook and collecting taxes to deal with the social network’s violations of laws in Việt Nam. From ANN.
Under current US law, digital services and platforms like Facebook and Twitter are protected from liability for the content that users post to their networks, so they can’t be sued for defamation or libel. From Columbia Journalism Review.