TechdirtEFF To Court: Don’t Make Embedding Illegal
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Ron Wyden Is Begging His Colleagues To Stop Trying To Hand Trump A Censorship Weapon
On Section 230’s 30th Birthday, A Look Back At Why It’s Such A Good Law And Why Messing With It Would Be Bad
On Section 230’s 30th Birthday, A Look Back At Why It’s Such A Good Law And Why Messing With It Would Be Bad
This past weekend Section 230 turned 30 years old. In those 30 years it has proven to be a marvelous yet misunderstood law, often gravely, as too many, including in Congress and the courts, mistake…
Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally
EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally
The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated con…
Alec MuffettEU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally | Techdirt
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133605
#IntermediaryLiability #Section230 #censorship #gdpr #surveillance
EU’s Top Court Just Made It Li...
EU’s Top Court Just Made It Li...
EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally | Techdirt
Oh dear: Under this ruling, it appears that any website that hosts any user-generated content can be strictly liable if any of that content contains “sensitive personal data” about any person. But …
Alec MuffettEU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally | Techdirt
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133605
#IntermediaryLiability #Section230 #censorship #gdpr #surveillance
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133605
#IntermediaryLiability #Section230 #censorship #gdpr #surveillance
EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally | Techdirt
Oh dear: Under this ruling, it appears that any website that hosts any user-generated content can be strictly liable if any of that content contains “sensitive personal data” about any person. But …
alecmEU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally | Techdirt
Oh dear:
Under this ruling, it appears that any website that hosts any user-generated content can be strictly liable if any of that content contains “sensitive personal data” about any person. But how the fuck are they supposed to handle that?
The basic answer is to pre-scan any user-generated content for anything that might later be deemed to be sensitive personal data and make sure it doesn’t get posted.
How would a platform do that?
#censorship #gdpr #intermediaryLiability #section230 #surveillance
EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally
The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated con…
Joly MacFieRECORDING – SCOTUS Cox v Sony Oral Arguments
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On December 1, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, a case testing whether Internet service providers can be held liable for copyright infringement by their users when the ISP continues providing service after receiving repeated infringement notices.
Cox and the U.S. government argued that s
SUMMARY + RESORCES – Internet Society Amicus Brief in Cox v. Sony – US Supreme Court – September 2025
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In the case of Cox v. Sony, in 2019, a Virginia jury awarded roughly $1 billion in statutory damages to a group of record labels, led by Sony, ruling that Cox had 'secondary liability' for copyright infringement by its users. In 2024, the Fou
