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Is the EU’s new Digital Services Act the path forward for platform governance legislation in other parts of the world?
A review of Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman, “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press” (University of Illinois Press, 2022).
The report found that proactive detection technologies and Meta's legal obligations contributed, in part, to Meta's asymmetrical treatment of content during the conflict to the detriment of Palestinian
The Supreme Court may overturn one of its most important free speech rulings of all time, but legislators and state courts can blunt the harms.
More than 50 democratic countries and partners launched their unified commitment towards promoting an open, global internet for all.
Telegram is by design difficult to pin down. That is what makes it so different from—and more successful than—other self-proclaimed “free speech” apps.
At what point does informal coercion raise Constitutional questions?
The offense of sedition, introduced by the colonial British government to criminalize dissent, continues to be on India’s statute books 70 years after independence. It’s time for India’s Supreme Court to hold the draconian law unconstitutional.
The legal challenge hinged on whether or not the dissemination of accidental and unknown falsehood was prohibited.
Canada does seem to be better off than the U.S. in shielding its electoral system from floods of disinformation. But whether that’s the result of Canada’s different free speech tradition, or, its lower-stakes political environment and more easygoing political culture, is not at all clear.