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...
Section 230 became a favorite punching bag of President Trump’s in the past year. But the law’s days may be numbered even though Joe Biden will be president. Democrats also think the law should be amended, but for different reasons: Tech companies should be held more responsible for moderating...
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico vowed to lead an international effort to combat what he considers censorship by social media companies that have blocked or suspended the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump. Read more from Associated Press.
Platform regulation has a real shot at passage this cycle of the U.S. Congress. After a year of “unserious, undemocratic and unconstitutional” proposals to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Stanford’s Keller proposes that lawmakers look to Europe for inspiration. Read more at The...
In the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Verge invited Daphne Keller, director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, to join the Decoder podcast to discuss where content moderation goes after Facebook and Twitter banned Trump. Listen to the podcast...
Amendments to various provisions of the Mexican Federal Copyright Law were approved to conform to the dispositions of our new Free Trade Agreement named United States, Mexico and Canada Agreement (USMCA), which will take effect on July 1st, 2020.
Thus, on July 1st, 2020, an important reform to...
Three prominent human rights activists have accused Zoom of disrupting or shutting down their accounts because they were linked to events to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre or were to discuss China’s measures to exert control over Hong Kong. From The Guardian.
Last week’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship issued by President Trump comes at a tense time in global politics and in the struggle to assert power over social media platforms. From MediaLaws.
Bashing social media for supposed liberal bias has become pretty standard fare for some conservative pundits and politicians. From Public Knowledge.
The funniest part of President Donald Trump’s remarks to reporters Thursday following his newly issued executive order on social media was this: “I think we shut [Twitter] down, as far as I’m concerned, but I’d have to go through a legal process,” Trump said. “If it were able to be legally shut down...
One of the main reasons attributed to the relative success of most East Asian democracies’ strategies in handling the COVID-19 pandemic is the widespread adoption of the government-backed COVID-19 apps. In the Philippines, several COVID-19 tracker apps have likewise surfaced. Recently, the...