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 September 19, 2017, hearings in the US Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation were held on the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficker Act (SESTA), which would allow state attorneys general to prosecute websites that are used to promote sex trafficking - thereby rolling back the Section...
On September 18, 2017, far-right website Gab.ai published a letter it received from its domain registrar ASIA Registry, in which it warned the website that it would cancel its domain name on September 23, 2017 for violations of the anti-discriminatory laws of Australia, where ASIA Registry is...
Self-censorship is kicking in fast on WeChat as China’s new rules on message groups casts a chill among the 963 million users of Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s social network. From Bloomberg Technology.
Supreme Court of India has issued notice in a public interest litigation petition filed by Pallav Mongia, an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court which seeks a direction “to prohibit transfer of data pertaining to citizens of Union of India outside the territory of Union of India other than when...
On September 6, 2017, it was reported that access to Facebook and WhatsApp was difficult in Togo, before all mobile internet was reportedly shut down.
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The Russian government continues to enforce stringent measures in order to block its national consumers from accessing unlicensed international betting operator services. From SBC News.
Today, the Stanford Law Review published my very first single-authored publication, “Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition.” This article contributes to the legal scholarly literature about the rise in the mid-to-late twentieth century of...
In a recent blog post, I discuss the role of EU Member State laws in defining and enforcing the “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) under the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I talk about these GDPR provisions in more detail in my forthcoming article. Because in the future RTBF may be...