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Socrates Program: 2021 Winter Seminars Socrates Digital Winter Seminars The Socrates Digital Winter Seminars will consist of three concurrent seminars. Each Socrates Digital Seminar consists of two, 2.5 hour sessions, one on Friday, February 12th, and one on Saturday February 13th, 2021 with a digital opening reception Friday evening. The seminar tuition is $250.00. Very limited scholarships are available by application. We have lined up three fantastic seminars with veteran moderators! Please see below for descriptions of seminar offerings: Disinformation, Hate and Social Media Platforms: T...

Senate Democrats have decided to take a swing at reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and if it censors more speech, it will do far more harm than good.

Thu Feb 4, 2021 I've been writing about the digital iron curtain for a while now and the conservative movement has gone from ignoring the issue to going all in on Section 230 repeal. While Section 230 repeal is an interesting tactic, and the threat of it was good leverage, it wouldn't on its own solve the problem of conservative censorship. If anything it might actually intensify it and lead to crackdowns on independent conservative sites while making services like Parler all but unviable. A lot of anti-Big Tech conservatives and lefties support Section 230 repeal. And one par...

CompuServe Inc extended distributor liability to digital intermediaries that exercised little or no editorial control over third‐​party content, offering them the protections traditionally granted to newsstands and booksellers. This protected CompuServe from Cubby’s defamation claim, though it left open the possibility that CompuServe might have been liable for Rumorville’s defamation had it failed to act after being made aware of the defamatory content. In 1995, Stratton Oakmont Inc., the brokerage firm of Wolf Wall Street fame, sued internet service Prodigy Services Co. in New Yor...

Fact-checking the president — at its core — isn't a free speech issue: It's a free press issue.