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The Supreme Court appears unlikely to significantly alter immunity for digital platforms. How could Congress go about constructing a balanced knowledge liability system?
Revisiting the public function doctrine is central to the task of protecting users from internet exclusion at the hands of private parties.
Anti-anonymity bills from the past few months might have good intentions, but they threaten the ability of people to communicate without providing their identities.
Democrats are repeatedly turning to a strategy that enables them to secure Republican support for competition legislation, but with steep long-term costs for content moderation.
Nor am I “panicked over free speech breaking out” on Elon Musk’s Twitter, or part of “a strong movement on the left to regulate and censor the Internet.”
Tornado Cash is a deathless artificial being, animated by magical words to circumvent the law.
The chilling effects of the Treasury Department’s unprecedented sanctions against code itself are being felt well beyond the cryptocurrency community, threatening the entire open source software ecosystem, and raising existential questions for all privacy-promoting technologies.
The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether social media companies must explain how they moderate content. To get to an answer, the justices will have to clarify the law surrounding compelled commercial speech.
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 Fifth Circuit badly overreaches in upholding Texas’s social media moderation law, making a hash of the First Amendment in the process.