What’s the Future of Content Moderation?
Plus KOSA, merger guidelines, zombies, and more . . .
Podcast: On the latest Tech Policy Podcast, Corbin interviewed Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of Trust and Safety, on the many difficulties of content moderation today. They discussed major social media platforms, federated social networks, and how different polities and cultures handle online speech.
Free Speech: Berin and Ari wrote a letter to members of the California State Assembly about Assembly Bill 1394, which was recently and laudably amended to avoid impacting end-to-end encryption. They wrote to urge the Assembly not to revert to an earlier version of the bill that would have forced platforms either to compromise end-to-end encryption or to scan user communications, putting user privacy at risk.
Corbin wrote a thread on the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Bailey v. Iles, which upheld a broad protection for obviously satirical online content. His thread was also mentioned in The Daily Caller.
KOSA: Ari appeared on the New Abnormal podcast by The Daily Beast, where he argued that the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) does not and cannot do what it seems.
Ari also participated in a session to discuss KOSA—and other proposed legislation intended to “protect” children online—for the Media Law Resource Center (membership required).
Antitrust: For the ProMarket Merger Guidelines Symposium, Bilal argued that the draft guidelines now under consideration are a major step backward for legal clarity and economic efficiency alike.
Section 230: In RNC v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California shot down the GOP’s lawsuit attacking Gmail’s spam-filtering tools. Corbin previewed this result when he wrote all about the case for The Bulwark.
Josh Evans, our former Communications Coordinator, at TechFreedom’s Back to the Future of Policy Summit in 2017!
I finally watched the Back to the Future trilogy.
It was about time.