I recently participated in Jubilee Media’s Middle Ground segment entitled “Who is Censored More? Liberals vs Conservatives.” It was a fun experience and the debate was interesting, as we talked about content moderation, combating abuse, hate and disinformation online over 90-minutes. The thirty-minute segment was posted on Sunday and, unfortunately, much of what I had…
On April 30, 2017, Taylor Dumpson was inaugurated as the first female, African-American student government president at The American University (AU) in Washington, D.C. – my undergraduate alma mater. The next day, a masked man hung “nooses with bananas inscribed with racist and derogatory messages around the AU campus.” Andrew Anglin, the publisher of the Neo-Nazi…
While the Tech Giants have benefited from the “light-touch” regulatory approach taken in the United States, European regulators are increasingly flexing their muscles in the area of taxation, antitrust, content moderation and privacy. This is even before any potential retaliatory action taken in response to President Trump’s proposed tariffs on steel and threat of a…
CLBR #270: Venkat, Data Scraping and Daily Stormer Focal Law Group’s Venkat Balasubramani joins us to discuss two recent developments: Dating Scraping after the hiQ Labs Decision The decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v LinkedIn, Inc., No. 3:17-cv-03301-EMC (N.D. Cal. Aug. 14, 2017) in which the court enjoined LinkedIn from blocking access to publicly available…
SPLC’S Heidi Beirich on the State of Hate in the USA Heidi Beirich – Southern Poverty Law Center Heidi Beirich leads the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, “one of the most respected anti-terror organizations in the world,” according to the National Review. She is an expert on various forms of extremism, including the white supremacist, nativist and neo-Confederate…
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 155 civil and human rights groups today called upon President Trump to respond more quickly and forcefully to hate-based incidents, which have been occurring at an alarming rate in recent months. On a related note, Heidi Beirich from the Southern Poverty Law Center will be on…
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