With the passage of last year’s Copyright Directive, the EU demanded that member states pass laws that reduce copyright infringement by internet users while also requiring that they safeguard the fundamental rights of users (such as the right to free… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Content Blocking’
The Executive Order Targeting Social Media Gets the FTC, Its Job, and the Law Wrong
This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump’s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts are here, here, and here. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship seeks to insert the federal government into private… Read More ›
Trump’s Executive Order Threatens to Leverage Government’s Advertising Dollars to Pressure Online Platforms
This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump’s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts can be found here, here, here, and here. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship (EO) seeks to insert the… Read More ›
Trump’s Executive Order Seeks To Have FCC Regulate Platforms. Here’s Why It Won’t Happen
This is one of a series of blog posts about President Trump’s May 28 Executive Order. Other posts are here and here. The inaptly named Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship seeks to insert the federal government into private Internet… Read More ›
Copyright Filters Are On a Collision Course With EU Data Privacy Rules
The European Union’s controversial new copyright rules are on a collision course with EU data privacy rules. The GDPR guards data protection, privacy, and other fundamental rights in the handling of personal data. Such rights are likely to be affected… Read More ›
Iranian Tech Users Are Getting Knocked Off the Web by Ambiguous Sanctions
Between targeted killings, retaliatory air strikes, and the shooting of a civilian passenger plane, the last few weeks have been marked by tragedy as tensions rise between the U.S. and Iranian governments. In the wake of these events, Iranians within… Read More ›
Global NGO Community Demands a Stop to the Sale of .ORG
Over 500 organizations and 18,000 individuals have signed a letter urging the Internet Society to stop the private equity takeover of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain. It’s rare that EFF, Greenpeace, Consumer… Read More ›
In the Debate Over Online Speech and Security, Let’s Get to the Science
A debate is raging, in Congress and the media, over whether or not we need new regulations to try to shape how Internet platforms operate. Too often, however, the discussion is based on rhetoric and anecdote, rather than empirical research…. Read More ›
30 Years Since Tiananmen Square: The State of Chinese Censorship and Digital Surveillance
Thirty years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party used military force to suppress a peaceful pro-democracy demonstration by thousands of university students. Hundreds (some estimates go as high as thousands) of innocent protesters were killed. Every year, people around the… Read More ›
State Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Your Free Speech, Privacy, and Hard-Earned Cash
More than 15 state legislatures are considering the “Human Trafficking Prevention Act” (HTPA). But don’t let the name fool you: this bill would do nothing to address human trafficking. Instead, it would only threaten your free speech and privacy in… Read More ›