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Emma Sarley's employer might come to regret instantly firing her.
Emma Sarley's employer might come to regret instantly firing her.
No, law enforcement and school officials cannot order students to remove posts about exposure to the coronavirus.
Still, Facebook should not have allowed its VIPs to flout the rules it claimed applied to everyone.
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Here’s why Section 230 is so important.
Being jerks is just the way some people try to make themselves feel dominant.
The defendants are not on trial for child sex trafficking, yet prosecutor Reggie Jones wouldn't stop talking about it.
Hint: It wasn't Big Tech censorship.
Denizens of the popular online forum protested the spread of COVID misinformation, but the company rightly wouldn't cave to their demands. It still cracked down on 55 subreddits in the end.
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A federal judge says an anti-porn group's suit against Twitter can move forward, in a case that could portend a dangerous expansion of how courts define "sex trafficking."
"The pandemic's wrongest man" can likely profit from martyrdom.
A new analysis reportedly showing a huge proportion of TikTok content is racist tells us nothing about the overall prevalence of extremist and bigoted content on the app.
Their study found that Twitter's efforts to police Donald Trump's false election fraud claims were ineffective and may even have backfired.
Breaking encryption technologies always makes us less safe, no matter what the justification.
The Pew Research Center found that support for censorship is increasing.
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Friday A/V Club: Some people are against concentrated media power. Some just want to bend it to their will.
Big tech platforms should encourage debate, not forbid it.
A rational debate requires acknowledging both the strengths and the weaknesses of the scientific evidence.
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Whether or not YouTube should have suspended him, the senator overlooked the limitations of the studies he cited and ignored countervailing research.
Online censorship by proxy undermines the ordinary process for checking claims and counterclaims.
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Market power does not make a private company the equivalent of a government agency.
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The administration’s public pressure campaign against COVID-19 "misinformation" cannot be reconciled with its avowed respect for freedom of expression.
Also, regulation is (still) not the answer to online misinformation.
The existence of politically biased websites is not a crisis.
Speech is protected by the First Amendment even when it discourages vaccination.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki wants the social media site to ban 12 specific anti-vaccine accounts.
Demonstrators are making themselves heard via Facebook, Signal, and other platforms. Is that enough to overthrow an authoritarian regime?
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The rationales for doing so are weak, and would create a dangerous slippery slope, if accepted.
It will fail, and fail badly.
Efforts against violence are turning into restrictions on ideas.
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Taken together, these six measures would have a major impact on the way we shop, chat, and otherwise go about our business online.
In many professional arenas, Wu's swings and misses would have consequences. In Wu's case, it landed him an advisory role in the Biden administration.