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 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 May 10, whistleblower Daniel Motaung filed a lawsuit in Nairobi against Meta and Sama, Meta’s main content moderation subcontractor in Africa. In 2019, Sama recruited Motaung from South Africa to work as a content moderator. Motaung, represented by Mercy Mutemi of Nzili and Sumbi Advocates, with...
On April 23, the European Parliament and EU Member States agreed on a final draft of the Digital Services Act (“DSA”), proposed by the European Commission in December 2020. Building on the eCommerce Directive from 2000, the DSA overhauls how EU law will treat intermediary liability for online...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is expected to sign into law amendments that would require social media platforms to remove illegal content within 24 hours and block illegal livestreams within three hours. Although the amendments are not public, they are expected to be in effect by July...
On April 18, 2022, the Delhi High Court held that Domain Name Registrars are intermediaries under sec. 2(1)(w) of India’s 2000 Information Technology Act. Justice C. Hari Shankar rejected the injunction filed by Snapdeal which challenged Domain Name Registrars for using its trademark in domain names...
The European Parliament passed the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive on April 17, 2019. One of its most controversial provisions is Article 17 (formerly Article 13), which requires online content-sharing service providers to obtain authorization (e.g., a license) from rightsholders to...