Alongside Bruna Santos, I wrote a post for Lawfare on the Digital Services Act and its unique and novel features, as well as whether the DSA can become a de facto standard for the future of platform governance.
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Link: Brookings – The Digital Services Act’s lesson for U.S. policymakers: Co-regulatory mechanisms
For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, I wrote about the innovation in the DSA, and how one particular piece, co-regulatory mechanisms, can be a great way to start thinking through platform governance issues in the United States.
Link: Brookings – Legislative efforts and policy frameworks within the Section 230 debate
Alongside Chris Riley, as a follow-up to our piece earlier this summer on the real and perceived harms that are the basis for Section 230 reform, for Brookings Institution’s TechStream, we wrote a synthesis of the major proposals for reform and how they each stack up against each other.
Link: Brookings – Trump deplatforming decision highlights the impotence of Facebook’s Oversight Board
For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, I wrote a post about the (in)decision of the Facebook Oversight Board on deplatforming former President Trump. Beyond the specifics on the decision, this builds on my previous work on this, the overview of and general takeaways from the Facebook Oversight Board. I make some very pointed critiques of the Board, Facebook and…
Link: Brookings – A guide for conceptualizing the debate over Section 230
For Brookings Institution’s TechStream, I wrote with Chris Riley, a synthesis piece about what the debate over “section 230” actually means, and the types of real and perceived harms that those fighting for reform want to mitigate.
Link: Brookings – Facebook’s Oversight Board makes an imperfect case for private governance
For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, I wrote an overview of and takeaways from the Facebook Oversight Board. I was fortunate to be part of one of its expert meetings in August 2019, and I focused most of my comments while there on the private governance aspect of the process. In this piece I recreate the journey…
Link: Brookings – Four lessons for U.S. legislators from the EU Digital Services Act
For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, Bruna Santos and I wrote an overview of the EU Digital Services Act proposal, and the lessons US (and other) policy makers can learn from it, in terms of intermediary liability. This is the third in our series of articles on intermediary liability legislation, after an in-depth look at the legislative reform proposals…
Link: Brookings – The push for content moderation legislation around the world
For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, I wrote with Bruna Santos, an in-depth look at the legislative reform proposals around the world (specifically US, EU and Brazil) on intermediary liability. This is a follow-up article to our previous breakdown of the legislative context globally.
Link: Brookings – How a compliance mindset undermines antitrust reform proposals
For Brookings Institution’s TechStream, I wrote with Dr. Anne L. Washington, a conceptual piece in which we talk about how the narrow and compliance-focused perspective that Big Tech companies take on dealing with “Ethics” is very likely to permeate any antitrust action taken by the government, given current proposals.
Link: Brookings – Online content moderation lessons from outside the US
I wrote, along with Bruna Santos, from Brazil’s Coding Rights, a piece for Brookings Institution’s TechTank, highlighting the diverse ways in which other countries (outside the US) handled legislation on content moderation.