Between 2019 and 2021 one of my main projects has been a Knight Foundation funded project working with the R Street Institute on translating the ethos and structure of multistakeholder governance from the Internet Governance space to the Speech Governance (of Content Policy) space. In September 2021 our report, written with Chris Riley, finally came…
Tag: content moderation
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…
Press: BusinessInsider – As Facebook prepares to outsource tough content decisions to its new ‘Supreme Court,’ experts warn it still operates within a dictatorship and can’t legislate a better government
I was quoted in this BusinessInsider article about the Oversight Board, as it ramps up its capacity to hear cases, even though its power is limited.
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: HIIG – Don’t break-up Facebook, make it more transparent
For the Humboldt Institute’s Digital Society blog, I authored a piece calling for meaningful transparency regulations as more important than any other antitrust action. There is also a partly German version.
Link: Techdirt Greenhouse – Content Moderation and Human Nature
For Techdirt’s Tech Policy Greenhouse, I wrote a longer, more conceptual piece about the disconnect between what communication technology platforms can do and what we’re asking them to do, and a longer argument about humanity and our nature woven throughout.
Webinar: Internet in the Time of Crisis
On August 14th, I was invited to talk about how the Internet worked during prolonged crisis, in a webinar put together by the Internet Law and Policy Foundry and ISOC-DC. Joining an all-star cast of lawyers, technical experts and academics, we talked about everything from infrastructure to social media platforms. A recording of the webinar…