Justice Thomas Wonders When Supreme Court Will Have To Consider Social Media's Private Deplatforming Power
A moot case about Trump blocking tweets leads to concerns that tech companies have too much control over speech.
A moot case about Trump blocking tweets leads to concerns that tech companies have too much control over speech.
Politicians on the right and the left are coming for your free speech.
The whole thing is arguably voided by Section 230.
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You want more censorship? Go ahead, repeal Section 230.
An interesting science experiment.
Amazon denies any impropriety in its decision to suspend the Twitter alternative, dismissing the suit as "meritless."
Techdirt's founder wants to give end users, not politicians and tech giants, more control over what we can say and see online.
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No one has a right to a Facebook platform, but purges can and should be criticized.
"When I started my blog," says journalist Yoani Sánchez, "it was like an exorcism of something that was inside of me."
Aaron Reynolds is just trying to make people laugh, but his content may have been flagged on Instagram for interfering with the election.
The more that big social media companies act like they can control what people say, the more competition they encourage.
Aaron Reynolds, the creator of "Swear Trek" and "Effin' Birds," talks about living and dying by Instagram's algorithms.
ISU initially criticized the tweet, but later affirmed the group's free speech rights and declined to punish them.
It's hard to take seriously complaints that there are no alternatives to Facebook when they're made on Twitter.
But what one side likes, the other side hates. There's no way Twitter and Facebook can appease them both.
What is the platform accomplishing by calling further attention to the president's wild claims of voting fraud?
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey faced the music. The tune is becoming familiar.
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You want censorship? This is how you get censorship.
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"This research will inform and fuel much needed and overdue policy change."
Even as Americans rely on tech more than ever, our early-pandemic truce with the industry is officially over.
Fox News host's The Plus is a funny yet serious argument about making politics matter less in your life.
"I think you might be referring to what happened on Twitter."
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The president promises penalties he has no power to impose, while the company promises moderation it cannot deliver.
Thank god for the First Amendment and the feuds among powerful politicians and platforms that will keep free speech alive.
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Weak reforms to the government’s power to secretly snoop on Americans wasn’t enough for the president. What happens next?
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Will changes to how many of us work outlast the pandemic?
Karen wants to speak to your manager. The senator from Missouri wants to become your manager.
Will coronavirus help rehabilitate tech's rep?
The New York Times technology reporter is revealing how social media is encouraging individual expression.
Nobody is being misled by this obviously joking debate clip. But this sort of ginned-up outrage will be used to target political opponents.
Critics say the long-running satiric cartoon has created "a generation of boys" who are smug and disengaged.
"Say what you will about ISIS but at least they're not Islamophobic." Journalist Andrew Doyle has created the ultimate parody account.
"I don't think you should do Twitter if you think you're better than Twitter."
"I have no faith left in call-out vigilante justice."
It's OK to disagree with an author's politics and still like her work.
The case for a technical free speech fix
Twitter CEO's connection to Bitcoin-friendly tools suggests more commitment to privacy than Facebook's Libra proposal.