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Fri, Feb 12th 2021 3:33pm — Copia Institute Summary: Different platforms have different rules regarding “adult” content, but they often prove difficult to enforce. Even the US judicial system has declared that there is no easy way to define pornography, leading to Justice Potter Stewart’s famous line, “I know it when I see it.” Many, if not most, internet websites have rules regarding such adult content, and in 2017 Valve’s online game platform, Steam, started trying to get more s...

Summary: Following on its efforts in tamping down on election-related misinformation, Twitter's latest moderation efforts target...

Summary: Dealing with content moderation during real-time chats always presents an interesting challenge. Whether it’s being able to...

Summary: GitHub solidified its position as the world's foremost host of open source software not long after its formation in 2008...

Fri, Jan 29th 2021 3:37pm — Copia Institute Summary: Manzoor Ahmed Pashteen is a human rights activist in Pakistan, calling attention to unfair treatment of the Pashtun ethnic group, of which he is a member. In 2018, days after he led a rally in support of the Pashtun people in front of the Mochi Gate in Lahore, his Twitter account was suspended. A number of human rights activists and other supporters of Pashteen quickly began to use Twitter to ask the company, and CEO Jack Dorsey, why Pashte...

Wed, Jan 27th 2021 3:40pm — Copia Institute Summary: Upstart social network Parler (which is currently offline, but attempting to come back) has received plenty of attention for trying to take on Twitter -- mainly focusing on attracting many of the users who have been removed from Twitter or who are frustrated by how Twitter’s content moderation policies are applied. The site may only boast a fraction of the users that the social media giants have, but its influence cant be denied. Parler p...

Wed, Jan 20th 2021 3:53pm — Copia Institute Summary: Since the rise of the internet, the recording industry has been particularly concerned about how the internet can and will be used to share infringing content. Over time, the focus of that concern has shifted as the technology (as well as copyright laws) have shifted. In the early 2000s, most of the concern was around file sharing applications, services and sites, such as Napster, Limewire, and The Pirate Bay. However, after 2010, much of t...

Fri, Jan 15th 2021 3:30pm — Copia Institute Summary: US companies obviously need to obey US laws, but dealing with demands from foreign governments can present challenging dilemmas. The Sarawak Report, a London-based investigative journalism operation that reports on issues and corruption in Malaysia, was banned by the Malaysian government in the summer of 2015. The publication chose to republish its own articles on the US-based Medium.com website (beyond its own website) in an effort to get ...

Wed, Jan 13th 2021 3:38pm — Copia Institute Summary: Running a site that relies on third-party content means having to deal with the underside of human existence. While most people engage in good faith, a small minority of people engage with the sole purpose of disparaging others. Yelp is no exception. Designed to provide potential customers with useful information about goods and services, the sites popularity lent itself to brigading (negative reviews delivered en masse in response to curre...

Fri, Jan 8th 2021 3:50pm — Copia Institute Summary: Any site that relies on uploaded content has to be wary of hosting pirated content. In most cases, allegedly infringing content is removed at the request of rights holders following the normal DMCA takedown process. A DMCA notice is issued and the site responds by removing the content and -- in some cases -- allowing the uploader to challenge the takedown. SoundCloud has positioned itself as a host of user-created audio content, relying on c...