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...
For years, the Russian government has been putting in place the technological and legal infrastructure to clamp down on freedom of speech online, leading to frequent predictions that the country could be heading toward internet censorship akin to China’s great firewall. But despite an entire...
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada Explores a Right to De-Indexing
In 2016, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) initiated public consultations on the topic of online reputation. Feedback showed that Canadians were “increasingly concerned about their...
By Maryna Polataiko
The Government of Canada has taken a wide range of avenues designed to address the question of mis- and disinformation, including: legislation, statements of principle, government initiatives, and civil society funding. Recent and proposed legislation bears potential...
Nearly two years have passed since the adoption of the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market 2019/790 (DSM Directive). As it was probably bound to happen, the discussion of its content – notably of its Article 17 – is no less heated now than in 2016-2019. This post tackles five key...
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...
A discussion between Eric Goldman, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law, and Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law at UCLA, on if and how legislatures could regulate Internet services. Read more at Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog.
The Digital Services Act seeks to consolidate various separate pieces of EU legislation and self-regulatory practices that address online illegal or ‘harmful’ content. It also seeks to harmonise the rules applicable to the provision of digital services across the EU rather than having a patchwork of...
EU's 27 Member States have struggled with transposing the Directive on Copyright in a Digital Single Market. This is the case in particular with regard to the implementation of Article 17, the most contested and debated provision of the CDSM Directive, which significantly reshapes the rules for the...
Twitter released a statement saying it plans to continue refusing the Indian government’s orders to ban accounts belonging to journalists, media outlets, and politicians who have been critical of the government’s policies. Read more at the Columbia Journalism Review.