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Daphne Keller

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Platform Regulation Director, Stanford Cyber Policy Center. Former Google AGC. This is roughly my zillionth rodeo.

San Francisco, CA

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Daphne Keller

6 years

We imagine that platforms can bring the whole sprawling chaos of human behavior into compliance with the law. Make our lives policeable, and policed, to a degree no govt in history could have imagined. Not only do we seem to think it's possible– we think it's a good idea.

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@daphnehk @AASchapiro So the vicious circle is first, we demand content moderation, then we get some and we're unhappy with it (because human beings are fallible, inconsistent, etc.), then we demand *less* "censorship" or *more* "moderation" or *the end of all unfair censorship/moderation*.

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Daphne Keller

1 year

Good lord, people. Learn the difference between censorship and surveillance. The govt was paying Twitter for *surveillance*. Twitter could not say no. It was compelled by a court order. If you have a problem with this, it’s a problem with the law. Not with Twitter.

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No, The FBI Is NOT ‘Paying Twitter To Censor’

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Daphne Keller

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Something terrible is happening in Canadian Internet law, and the people who care in the rest of the world are mostly stretched too thin to pay attention. We’re counting on people like @mgeist , @EmilyLaidlaw , @tamir_i , and @vivekdotca to somehow fix it. 1/

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3 years

What if we all just refused to bluebook

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3 years

Speaking as someone who has litigated and lost on this exact issue in three countries (UK, Germany, France), I feel confident in saying the firm refusal to filter for new things beyond CSAM doesn’t mean much in the face of state power.

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So basically: all that stands between users and governments demanding adding of non-CSAM images to the hash list is Apple's firm refusal?

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Daphne Keller

3 years

When you write about the Internet as if it were only Facebook, Google, and Twitter, you help to create that version of the Internet.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

It is so depressing that the EARN IT Act is barreling its way through Congress despite its many very clear, very important problems. Here are some.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

This is why protecting encryption from bills like EARN IT is not some dry, wonkish issue. Encryption protects brave and vulnerable people all over the word.

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Spike in use of Signal (messaging app) in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. Smaller but significant increase in the use of Telegram as well.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

The meme that “platforms algorithmically amplify polarizing content because engagement drives ad revenue” has gotten seriously out of hand. Someone needed to burst that bubble. It’s such a bummer that the someone is Facebook VP Nick Clegg. 1/

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Daphne Keller

3 years

This remark should be a giant red flag about laws that would effectively require every potential competitor to make investments only Facebook can afford, in pursuit of results that only Facebook believes it has achieved.

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issie lapowsky

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"We should want every other company in our industry to make the investment, and achieve the results, that we have," Zuck said.

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Daphne Keller

4 years

Strong words from FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on the 230 Executive Order.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

Here is a public copy of the syllabus from my 2020 Platform Regulation class at Stanford. All reading material is public, including my teaching edits of some of the longer cases. Teaching remotely was hard, but my students were awesome.

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2020 Platform Regulation Syllabus - Public Copy

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Daphne Keller

2 years

The important part of this story isn’t that Russia strong-armed Apple and Google into terrible, human-rights damaging concessions. That was kind of obvious. It’s that no US or EU officials cared or objected. There were basically no consequences.

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Putin’s prewar moves against U.S. tech giants laid groundwork for crackdown on free expression

Google and Apple blinked after threats from Russian agents.

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Daphne Keller

4 years

To aid in this endeavor, here is my color coded and annotated copy of the Executive Order in CDA 230 and platforms.

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DRAFT EO on Platforms

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Daphne Keller

4 years

Reporting on this should distinguish between (1) handwaving, atmospherics, general distraction; (2) purported mandates that would require ignoring courts and congress; (3) any remaining tidbits with legal effect. Experts are focused on (3). If press focuses on (1), we all lose.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

If you didn’t see this coming, you’re probably not that into history, economics, sociology, or game theory.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

I'm trying to get my head around what it even means for Texas's batty social media law to go into effect. My sympathies to the platform lawyers making the same calculations.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

If I pay to get a blue check that brings an extra ranking boost to my tweets, do I become an advertiser for purposes of… well, literally thousands of laws, but let’s just say the DSA?

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Daphne Keller

2 years

Wow. Strong move by @Cloudflare in its newly announced policy saying they will not exercise discretion to terminate security services to sites like the Daily Stormer going forward. The post by @eastdakota and Alissa Starzak is very thoughtful. 1/

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Cloudflare's abuse policies & approach

Cloudflare launched nearly twelve years ago. Over that time, our set of services has become much more complicated. With that complexity we have developed policies around how we handle abuse of...

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Daphne Keller

2 years

Here's the syllabus of my 2021 Platform Regulation class at Stanford.

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2021 Platform Regulation Syllabus - Public Copy

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Daphne Keller

3 years

So wait is my metadata shirt more cool or less cool now

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Daphne Keller

5 years

Here we go. Now India is ordering platforms to take down information globally based on Indian laws. Which seems perfectly reasonable, since France, Austria, and Canada all get to do it. But that's exactly the problem: every court in every country will want to do the same thing.

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5 years

1/n Update: In a judgment interpreting #intermediary liability law in India, the Delhi High Court yesterday ordered the *global removal* of defamatory content from intermediary platforms like Facebook. Relevant portion of order in the image below - #OnlineContent #FreeSpeech

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Daphne Keller

2 years

My son built a Captcha that always says you’re a robot. You have to keep clicking to accept that you are a robot. And then you get Rickrolled.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

The Court's theory of history and constitutional rights seems to be that any horror or injustice tolerated at the founding can persist forever unless we have a civil war over it.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

I don’t write papers so people will read them straight through. I write them so people will read the parts they can use. Hence all the subheadings. Only fiction writers should expect people to read to read entire written works in the order prescribed. And maybe not even them.

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Daphne Keller

1 year

The most important and underexamined thing happening in U.S. Internet law right now is the emergence of various "child safety" laws that effectively regulate content on platforms, but don't say so. 1/

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Daphne Keller

2 years

Proposed: Anyone who writes "platforms do x" must cite a non-Facebook example or else revise to "Facebook does x." You know who benefits from public confusion on this point? Facebook.

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Daphne Keller

4 years

Reporting on this should distinguish between (1) handwaving, atmospherics, general distraction; (2) purported mandates that would require ignoring courts and congress; (3) any remaining tidbits with legal effect. Experts are focused on (3). If press focuses on (1), we all lose.

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CNET

4 years

President Trump expected to sign executive order about social media tomorrow

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Daphne Keller

6 years

My GDPR and “Right to Be Forgotten” article is fully and finally published. If you are litigating, advocating, or making policy on this topic — or if you want a crash course in EU data protection and intermediary liability — this one’s for you.

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Daphne Keller

1 year

Also, this polite “hell no” email is a work of art and skill. Law schools should teach students how to write these. It’s kind of scary learning on the job.

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Daphne Keller

1 year

The most important thing about the @nytimes op ed by @yoyoel about Twitter under Musk is that it’s great and insightful and you should read it. His departure from Twitter is a huge loss for the company, but perhaps a great gain for open public discussion about Trust and Safety.

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Daphne Keller

10 months

The statements from Thierry Breton of the European Commission about shutting down social media during riots are shocking. They vindicate every warning about the DSA that experts from the majority world (aka global south) have been shouting throughout this process. 1/

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Daphne Keller

2 years

I'm loving the idea of EU law *banning* automated content moderation tools, when basically the full weight of EU government has pushed companies to build precisely those tools for years.

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Mathias Vermeulen

2 years

Here are all the plenary amendments ahead of the Digital Services Act vote this week in the plenary of the European Parliament. Apart from the IMCO amendments very few of these will make it into the Parliament's position (but there are always surprises)

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Daphne Keller

4 years

@mmasnick Is this satire? The "you gave me a perfectly legal thing that I wanted and now I am a helpless pile of jello, sore parts, and neosporin" argument sounds suspiciously familiar. Kind of like that one Hawley bill about Internet addiction.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

I have a new short piece on one of the most exciting ideas in platform regulation: Letting users choose alternate content moderation systems, built on top of today’s platforms but run by new competitors. 1/

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Daphne Keller

3 years

How long should platforms spend deciding if users' online expression is illegal? Lawmakers keep coming up with answers like "24 hours" or "7 days." Meanwhile, courts spend hundreds of days on the same questions. Here is some great data from @JMchangama .

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Daphne Keller

2 years

Anyone who tells you they know what Elon will do is lying. Might as well look at a more knowable, and massively important, development: the EU Digital Services Act or DSA. I wrote a very quick, dirty, and practical overview here:

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Daphne Keller

3 years

Wow. This is the end of an era. @delbius is an icon. But icons should get to rest, too.

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Del Harvey

3 years

I believe the traditional opening to these sorts of Tweet threads is "Some personal news." So . . . some personal news. After almost 13 years – technically, 12 years and 364 days – this Friday, October 22nd, will be my last day at Twitter. (1/6)

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3 years

Heads up, people who don’t follow GDPR news: This case is a big deal. It’s basically asking the CJEU to rule that FB’s whole ads system violates the GDPR.

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@[email protected] at Mastodon

3 years

Can’t wait to read the CJEU judgment. I argued in a paper that “in most circumstances, the only available legal basis for the processing of personal data for behavioural targeting is the data subject's unambiguous consent.” (2015. So long ago already!?)

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Daphne Keller

6 years

I stopped griping about why so much of the Cambridge Analytica coverage is wrong, and wrote it down instead.

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Data Analytics, App Developers, and Facebook’s Role in Data Misuse | Stanford Law School

Facebook has come under increased scrutiny in recent months, the social media giant's efforts to protect its users' data questioned. Now,

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Daphne Keller

2 years

I feel like I, or anyone who has worked in the space, could have written this leaked third-party audit of Twitter's disinfo policy enforcement without even having to interview anyone. Because it describes every company I've ever heard of.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

@carlmalamud In other news, they are letting ACDC make some really weighty decisions these days.

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Daphne Keller

4 years

Everyone should be paying WAY more attention to GIFCT, the database platforms use to share information about terrorist content (or things that met someone’s definition of terrorist content, which is part of the issue). Here comes a thread. 1/

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Daphne Keller

1 year

I don't even want to know.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

My concerns about Canada’s very, very troubling proposed Internet law — written out in detail, with links to the relevant sections of the proposal.

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3 years

The Department of Canadian Heritage has proposed a new legal framework to deal with “harmful” content. Stanford's @daphnehk says the rules it would create for platforms would import the worst of similar laws from elsewhere in the world:

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Daphne Keller

3 years

Govts & media: If you don’t do magic content moderation, you’re bad and will be punished. Platforms: We’re doing it! Govts & media: You lied about doing magic content moderation, you’re bad and will be punished. I’m not even sure who’s the bad guy in this story. But it’s bad.

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The Wall Street Journal

3 years

Facebook was counting on its artificial-intelligence system to make the platform work properly by enforcing its rules against violent or hate-filled speech. But its own documents show the system can't tell the difference between car crashes and cockfights.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

Tell me about your favorite speakers on tech policy! Who are the people who you'd go listen to giving a talk just because you know they will be interesting and do a good job conveying complex ideas (even to those new to the topic)?

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Daphne Keller

3 years

I’m too depressed by the state of political discourse to even count how many constitutional hurdles this bill fails to clear. Lawmakers that waste time being performative are not serving anyone’s interests.

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Senators target Section 230 to fight COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

Tensions are rising between Facebook and the White House.

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Daphne Keller

5 years

The CJEU's ruling in Glawischnig-Piesczek is out, and it is basically the worst case scenario. 1/

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Daphne Keller

2 years

I don't think I have the energy to do an op ed on the 5th Circuit ruling, or the outrageous Texas platform law that's about to become enforceable. I have a great title, though.

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3 years

Canada's proposed law would have penalties up to three percent of global revenue or $10 million. And 24-hour takedown requirements. That's a recipe for massive overcompliance, with major consequences for users' rights to seek and impart information. 7/

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Daphne Keller

1 month

Here's how AI will really destroy the world. By teaching people that bloated verbosity is an improvement over the perfectly clear, concise message the user drafted in this example used to promote Chrome's new AI feature. Writing teachers of the world, prepare to give up and cry.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

The Facebook @OversightBoard is not a Supreme Court. It's not any kind of court. It's a group of thoughtful people with special, contractual authority over a private company. We may like having them on that wall. But they're not any form of constitutional/democratic governance.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

Poland’s case arguing that the “upload filter” provisions of DSM/Copyright Directive Article 17 violate Internet users’ fundamental rights, which has been quietly sitting before the CJEU for months, is a ticking time bomb. 1/

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Daphne Keller

3 years

First, it has 24-hour notice and takedown. That’s much worse than NetzDG in Germany. (Which gives platforms 7 days to more carefully assess speech that isn’t obviously illegal.) NetzDG got a ton of attention around the world. Canada is flying under the radar. 5/

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3 years

@evelyndouek opens her @StanfordCyber talk with amazing stats about the sheer scale of content moderation. During a one hour talk, here are the number of speech removal decisions big platforms will make. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has decided about 246 1st Am cases. Ever.

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Daphne Keller

5 years

I have an op ed in today’s Washington Post. It breaks down the silliness of saying CDA 230 requires/should require “neutrality.” It also points out that worries about platform content removals are universal, not partisan; and lists more relevant responses.

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5 years

@zackwhittaker @doctorow Oh, man. This is why I used to assign @Popehat ’s “How to Write a Takedown Request” to students. Guess Bird missed that one.

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Daphne Keller

10 months

In the injunction against Biden administration officials "jawboning" social media companies, the judge makes a classic legal and logical error. He thinks he can protect "free expression" while leaving the govt free to restrict content he personally considers bad or dangerous. 1/

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Daphne Keller

4 years

Curious about this "algorithmic choice" thing @jack just brought up in the hearing? It's a really important idea. It needs a lot of tire-kicking, but we should be doing that. Here is the Stephen Wolfram testimony he mentioned:

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Daphne Keller

3 years

Not right as in “this means the ads + amplification meme has zero basis.” Right as in “this theory is only useful with major caveats and complications, so stop leaning on it like you’re a 17-year-old who just discovered Marx or Ayn Rand.” 4/

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Daphne Keller

5 years

What should students read to be reasonably abreast of platform content regulation laws and developments? If all they have is a nine-week academic quarter, here is my list in the form of a heavily annotated syllabus:

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Public Copy of Syllabus: Regulating Internet Speech Platforms

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Daphne Keller

3 years

I am so pleased to finally have my Amplification paper published! Man, did this take longer than I expected. (Thanks, Covid, and everything else.) 1/

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Amplification and Its Discontents

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Daphne Keller

3 years

The UK Online Harms draft captures contradictions of the platform speech debate in perfect microcosm. Platforms must take down one legally undefined kind of content ("harmful") while leaving up another ("democratically important"). Have fun with that, guys.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

I have updated my chart tracking which DSA obligations apply to different intermediaries, based on their size and technical function (hosting, caching, marketplaces, etc.). 1/

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DSA Rules by Entity and Size (without VLOSE)

DRAFT Oct 24 2022 WITHOUT VLOSE update Article,Provision,Provider Type (other than VLOSE)*,Provider Size (DSA Terminology),Notes

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Daphne Keller

3 years

This part of Zuckerberg’s testimony is a feat of geopolitical dexterity. 18 months ago, Facebook lost a major case about global content filtering in the EU. So now it’s telling Congress that *every* platform should be held to the standard imposed on FB by European courts. 1/

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Daphne Keller

3 years

Zuckerberg even seems to be saying that platforms should be required to do the kind of proactive, automated policing of user communications that has had human rights advocates up in arms for the last several years of EU legal debates.

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What do platforms do when the law tells them to take down illegal user content? They take down a bunch of other stuff, too. How do we know? Well, here's an updated list of empirical studies documenting the problem:

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Daphne Keller

4 years

The contemporary equivalent of the Military Industrial Complex is the nexus of state and private platform power. We need a catchy phrase for that, and it needs sustained scrutiny. Things are getting ugly. Thread 1/

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Daphne Keller

3 years

People worry about Twitter or Facebook “replacing the public square.” But that’s nothing compared to how thoroughly private payment processors, with private rules for speech and economic transactions, have replaced state-issued, universally usable cash.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

Wow. Mastercard’s new content rules for porn sites are really extreme. It sounds like their excuse is that the law made them do it? What law are they taking about, @evan_greer or @christianashnc ?

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3 years

Oh look - Norway has a privacy law and is using it to penalize privacy harms. But we’ll just keep pretending things like this are about CDA 230 over here.

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Techmeme

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Norwegian Data Protection Authority fines Grindr ~$11.7M for disclosing user location data to advertisers and effectively tagging users as LGBTQ without consent (New York Times)

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3 years

The meaningless math in these EU hate speech report drives me up the wall. Is removing 62.5% of content flagged as hate speech "worse" than removing 71? NO ONE KNOWS. We don't know how many flags were valid. This is a numerator with no denominator.

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Mark Scott

3 years

Ruh roh — social media giants like @facebook & @YouTube removed less hate speech in 2021 versus last year, according to leaked @EU_Commission audit coming later today. Read it here first 👉

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3 years

What is going on in Chile? They have a TERRIBLE Internet law in the making, despite being the home of the much-respected judicial notice model. I don't see any news coverage, but here is a letter from @theGNI opposing it.

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GNI Letter and Analysis: Draft Digital Platform Regulation in Chile - Global Network Initiative

A proposed draft bill to regulate digital platforms in Chile — built around the concept of "digital freedom of expression — is likely to undermine these very rights. We articulate these concerns in...

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5 years

The CJEU is about to decide the future of platform content filtering in Europe, and no one who understands filters is paying attention. A new Stanford CIS White Paper explains the many, many reasons that’s a problem. 1/

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Daphne Keller

5 years

If we ask private companies to take down lawful-but-offensive speech, we should expect their rules to be majoritarian and disfavor marginalized voices—of all kinds—in the long run. How else has power ever worked? (Though @ggreenwald 's exact formulation is an overstatement IMO.)

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Glenn Greenwald

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If you don't understand that large corporations like Google (YouTube) and Facebook are always going to side with the richest, most powerful and most influential at the expense of the marginalized, then you literally understand nothing about the world

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This is a really big deal. And as @tjmcintyre notes, it is insane (if true, which I assume it is) that EU authorities didn't tell the public. We only know bc Google shared it with the @lumendatabase . Many thanks to whoever inside Google fought for, and signed off on, that.

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TJ McIntyre

2 years

Remarkable news for tech law nerds. EU sanctions against Russia Today and Sputnik require: * search engines to delist all their content, and * social media firms to delete posts by individuals which reproduce any of their content. Commission’s explanatory text in images. 1/

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I'm pretty sure the people saying "Platforms can't just block Texas, that would violate Texas's new social media law" are right. For litigators, that means a law school exam hypothetical's worth of questions about jurisdiction, which court would hear this issue, etc. 1/

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Daphne Keller

3 years

It's like a list of the worst ideas around the world -- the ones human rights groups like @edri , @article19org , @hrw , @accessnow and responsible tech orgs like @mozilla and @wikimediapolicy have been fighting in the EU, India, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, and elsewhere. 4/

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The Court's mocking tone in describing platforms’ “obsession with terrorists and Nazis” is not going to age well. 6/

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3 years

Aaaaaand we're off! There have been over 30 "must carry" claims like this, and platforms have always won. But, you know. Maybe this one will be different.

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Parler sues Amazon, asks court to reinstate platform

Social media company Parler sued Amazon on Monday, alleging that its suspension from Amazon’s hosting service violated antitrust law and breached the companies’ contractual arrangement.…

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Daphne Keller

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App stores are among the very tightest privately owned chokepoints in the flow of online information. They don't get as much attention as they should in academic/civil society free expression discussions, or even competition discussions.

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Apple bans Hong Kong protest location app - BBC News

The smartphone app provides information about the location of police and where tear gas was being used.

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Daphne Keller

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Third, platforms must report users who *might* have violated the law to police. This kind of privatized dragnet surveillance of user speech is in Germany's new NetzDG law too. Google is challenging it there. 12/

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Google takes legal action over Germany's expanded hate-speech law

Google said on Tuesday that it was taking legal action over an expanded version of Germany's hate-speech law that recently took effect, saying its provisions violated the right to privacy of its...

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Daphne Keller

3 years

This is exactly the kind of filtering mandate that has had civil society and human rights advocates ringing alarm bells in Europe for several years. A much narrower proposal in the EU Terrorist Content Reg drew condemnation from UN human rights officials and more. 9/

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Daphne Keller

2 years

People keep saying platforms should block Texas. I hope platforms seriously consider the opposite: Just give them the unmoderated garbage dump they asked for, complete with all the spam, porn, bullying, and Nazis they wanted.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

Pssst. If you can spare a minute from Elon and the DSA, I think the CJEU’s ruling on Poland’s free expression challenge to Art 17 is due out tomorrow. This may be the most important ruling on human rights and platform liability in a long, long time.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

Twitter stays strong longer than other platforms, as is often the case. This is why Russia was in the process of enforcing hostage requirements, forcing platforms to put employees on the ground in-country.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

The DSA had a fairly open, democratic drafting process until the past few weeks. But what is happening now is shameful. Interest groups are getting ideas tacked on — things that will become binding law for a generation — that never had any public airing, debate, or input at all.

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Joan Barata

2 years

And yet another dangerous backdoor regarding copyright in the DSA. New proposed amendment may force search engines to actively (generally?) monitor content and delist entire websites. Copyright filters and right to be forgotten at their worst.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

My heart goes out to all the past and current Twitter folks watching the gates they built being stormed and the fortifications dismantled right now.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

Take everything you know about online trolls, abusers, brigaders, spammers, and coordinated inauthentic behavior-ers. Then think about how those people can (and do, and will even more if we screw this up) weaponize the systems where users flag content for removal.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

@skywalkerbeth @jkosseff For a sense of how often things would be inaccurately flagged as false, here are the 52%, representing 2 million and counting, false reports to Google under EU Right to Be Forgotten law. And that’s in a system with careful human review to deter abuse.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

Some of my favorite responses to the "Facebook Files" coverage, in no particular order. 1/

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Daphne Keller

5 years

Best #RightsCon session title? Easy winner: "If You Keep Suggesting Blockchain I Swear to God I Will F-ing Scream"

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RightsCon Tunis 2019: If you keep suggesting blockchain, I swe...

View more about this event at RightsCon Tunis 2019

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Daphne Keller

4 years

I just noticed that this schwag pencil from the Berlin data protection office doesn’t have an eraser. That seems wrong.

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Daphne Keller

8 months

The EU's database is live! In theory it should include every Statement or Reasons sent by platforms explaining content moderation decisions. I've groused about it, but it's an amazingly ambitious effort and already pretty interesting. 1/

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European Commission

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The Digital Service Act set clear rules to protect freedom of speech and healthy, well-informed public debate. Today, we’re launching the DSA Transparency Database. It will make all content moderation decisions by online platforms operating in the EU accessible ↓ #DigitalEU

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Daphne Keller

4 years

My own child told me her friends all use the word "Google" to mean "Chrome" and it kind of made my head explode. I just barely avoided invoking Internet Explorer and the antitrust case against Microsoft. I did talk about TM genericide a tiny bit. She didn't get too mad.

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Daphne Keller

2 years

A tweet of mine is being quoted to the Supreme Court in a brief. Perhaps my work here is done.

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Corbin K. Barthold

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2 years

4/ HB20 *in fact* requires social media services to carry -- and even promote -- the worst material under the sun. Worse, it's so vague as to be impossible to comply with. Worse still, it's *designed* to encourage a flood of litigation.

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Daphne Keller

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Second, the Canadian proposed law requires proactive monitoring – aka filtering – for five kinds of content, including hateful content, propaganda, and violent content. 8/

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Daphne Keller

3 years

We know that even under more lenient systems, platforms systematically err on the side of taking down lawful content in order to avoid risk to themselves. 6/

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Daphne Keller

3 years

@mgeist @EmilyLaidlaw @tamir_i @vivekdotca This is a thread listing some of the law’s problems as identified by @mgeist , and flagging a few resources showing the law’s major human rights problems. Others who know of more that might be useful for those working on this in Canada, please add on. 2/

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Daphne Keller

2 years

If we counted up the number of news stories that credulously restate claims about social media that are debunked in this @NewYorker article, we’d never stop counting. Because they just keep on coming.

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How Harmful Is Social Media?

There’s a general sense that it’s bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers.

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Daphne Keller

4 years

God bless people who offer the minor courtesy of converting times into your time zone when proposing a meeting.

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Daphne Keller

3 years

I respect the Facebook Oversight Board and wish them the best. but “sucked into the private power vortex” is a good description of what’s going on. Do we want to support and reinforce pseudo-governance with pseudo-rights protections designed by Facebook?

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David Kaye

3 years

just consider all the work done by scholars & advocates this week to file something before the board regarding trump's deplatforming. we are all sucked into the private power vortex.

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Daphne Keller

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Many of @mgeist 's recent posts are about the rushed and secretive lawmaking process. This latest one lays out the current proposals. 3/

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Picking Up Where Bill C-10 Left Off: The Canadian Government's Non-Consultation on Online Harms...

The Canadian government released its plans yesterday for online harms legislation with a process billed as a consultation, but which is better characterized as an advisory notice, since there are few...

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