A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online
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Human rights and "technical protection measures" (DRM) - Lessons from twenty-two years of the US DMCA
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Auto industry TV ads claim right-to-repair laws would benefit "sexual predators"
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Facebook announces that if Australia's proposed News Media Bargaining Code becomes law, they will no longer allow Australians to share any news on Facebook or Instagram
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Social media platforms can’t be a law unto themselves
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Lawyers demand US Military stop violating free speech on Twitch
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Brazilian General Data Protection Law – Overview and implications
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Slack files competition complaint against Microsoft before the European Commission, alleging that tying Teams into Office is anti-competitive and illegal
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Substack Defender - A legal support program for independent writers publishing newsletters on Substack
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
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Bill requires employers to keep implanted microchips voluntary for workers
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US Department of Justice’s review of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and proposals for reform
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CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
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US President Donald Trump signs executive order designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content users post on their platforms
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Nearly two years after Europe's GDPR privacy law came into effect, supporters are frustrated by lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies
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Sweden fines Google $8 million for right-to-be-forgotten violations – a failure to comply with Europe's GDPR after they failed to adequately remove search results
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Policy vs technology
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I’ve fought for a free internet for thirty years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right
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Re-evaluating the DMCA twenty-two years later: Let’s think of the users
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Modern copyright law is a joke
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California’s new privacy law is off to a rocky start
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The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy
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NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
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EU passes “Right to repair” Law to make large appliances easier to repair starting from 2021
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Stamos on legal issues for US tech companies sharing with foreign governments
@alexstamos: It's really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I'm also going to try to clear up a lot of confusion about the CLOUD Act created by poor reporting by The Times (of London) and Bloomberg. Here is the original, incorrect story: https://t.co/1l8tgH1r4s
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Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules
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Microsoft 365, Google cloud and Apple cloud deemed illegal in Schools of Hesse
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Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for right to repair laws slowly grows
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8chan is raided by the FBI regarding California synagogue shooter
@swodinsky: lmaooooooo 8chan just got search warranted
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Nextcloud signs public letter, opposing German plan to force decryption of chat
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Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US
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France bans judge analytics, five years in prison for rule breakers
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We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
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YouTubers and record labels are fighting, and record labels keep winning
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Soon you may not even have to click on a website contract to be bound by its terms
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"It's not play if you're making money": How Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws
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WhatsApp has become a hotbed for spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany
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Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
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Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
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Kentucky approves bill to make 'doxing' illegal after Covington student's online backlash
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Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
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Right to repair legislation is officially being considered in Canada
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Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared
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Facebook charged with misleading users on health data visibility
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The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has just been finalised
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Transparency-seeking OPEN Government Data Act signed into law
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Potential impact of two IoT security and privacy laws on tech industry
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How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request
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What do you legally “own” with Bitcoin? A short introduction to krypto-property
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FCC Republican claims municipal broadband is threat to First Amendment
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