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Supreme Court’s Social Media Ruling Tilts Toward Free Speech

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The US Supreme Court this month declined to rule on whether Florida and Texas laws limiting social media platforms’ content moderation violates the First Amendment, sending the issue back to the lower courts. But in doing so,...more

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Curation Litigation: Social Networks’ Right to Be Unsociable

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“My freedom of speech stimulates your freedom to tell me I’m wrong.” – P.J. O’Rourke - In what is certainly the most important First Amendment decision of the term, if not recent memory, the US Supreme Court this summer will...more

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The Digital Services Act (“DSA”) – What You Need to Know

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The Digital Services Act (“DSA”) was published in the Official Journal Thursday. It becomes effective on November 16, 2022 and will start being enforced on February 17, 2024....more

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The Online Safety Bill: What can be done about its free speech problem?

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Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the Online Safety Bill (OSB), one of the most debated legislative proposals in the UK in recent years, is its impact on freedom of expression....more

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Latest Developments in Controversial Article 17 on Platform Liability for Infringing Content

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A year on from the national implementation deadline of the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market, the CJEU has upheld controversial Article 17. In September 2016, the European Commission announced its...more

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UK publishes Online Safety Bill: a new era in digital regulation

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Over 2 years since the UK Government first laid out its plans to introduce a new regulatory framework for “online harms”, the Online Safety Bill was published on 12 May 2021. The Bill imposes duties of care on providers of...more

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Using artificial intelligence to fight hate speech

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Hogan Lovells partner Winston Maxwell spoke at the executive roundtable on artificial intelligence and online hate speech, organised on January 31, 2019 by CERRE, the Centre on Regulation in Europe....more

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European Court Rules That Merely Hyperlinking Is Not Defamatory

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Here is a sentence we don't write very often: A decision this week of the European Court of Human Rights has brought U.S. and European defamation law into greater alignment. Well, at least regarding hyperlinks to defamatory...more

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