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The House bill would alter Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to lift civil immunity for platforms whose recommendations 'materially contributed to a physical or severe emotional injury to any person.'
YouTube CEO calls for global coalitions to address content that’s “legal but could be harmful” A push for unelected corporations to set the global content moderation standards for legal content Image Credit: Email During an appearance at the World Economic Forum Global Technology Governance Summit 2021, an event where more than 40 governments and 150 companies meet to ensure “the responsible design and deployment of emerging technologies,” YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki expressed her support for tech platforms moderating content that’s “technically legal but could be harmful” and ...
Decluttering the Encryption and Platform Regulation Debate in India ANI | Updated: Apr 06, 2021 12:37 IST New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI/BusinessWire India): On Sunday, April 4, 2021, The Dialogue, a Delhi based Tech Policy think tank, in partnership with Law and Tech Society of National Law School of India, hosted a Virtual Conference on Encryption and Platform Regulation Debate in India wherein the results of the National Essay Competition on Encryption and Platform Regulation were also declared. The Essay competition spanning over the last seven month...
Explained: What's Australia's new media bargain code all about? Depending on who is explaining it, the code can oscillate between a sham to fill the coffers of Big Media to a plan for news publishers to get their due from Big Tech. On February 17, the Australian House of Representatives passed a piece of legislation called the News Media Bargaining Code. Under the code, Facebook and Google are required to pay Australian news outlets for displaying their content. In response, Facebook stopped displaying news content from the country. What forced Facebook to take such a drastic step? Why is Go...
This hasn't stopped other platforms like Gab from growing as it seemed to target disillusioned conservatives by similarly calling itself the "free speech social network." Nothing in U.S. law makes it explicitly illegal to give a certain group a platform, even at the risk of hosting smaller, "domestic extremist groups," said Alex Stamos, director of the Cyber Policy Center’s Internet Observatory and former chief security officer at Facebook. "You're going to continue to see the separation from the companies that are trying to go after the (extremist) groups versus those that aren't, which is...