Social Media Ideas for Content Regulation

Court Upholds N.Y. Law Mandating Platforms Post Terms of Service and Report How Content Moderation Policies Have Been En...

From Judge John Cronan (S.D.N.Y.) today in X Corp. v. James: Businesses might not always want to share every detail… The post Court Upholds N.Y. Law Mandating Platforms Post Terms...

5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech

Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.

The Karnataka High Court on Content Blocking: What the X Corp Rulings Mean for Platform Accountability in India

Introduction Over the past three years, the Karnataka High Court has become the principal forum for testing how far the Union Government’s power to control online content in India...

Supreme Court Restrains Unauthorised Sharing of Court Hearing Videos Across Social Media Platforms

Supreme Court bars unauthorised circulation of court hearing videos and seeks uniform implementation of live-streaming rules.

Compliance-First Content Architecture

Compliance-first content architecture helps regulated finance brands scale content without sacrificing governance. Learn the five-component workflow. The post Compliance-First Cont...

FCC Streamlines Broadband Label Rules, Easing Compliance Burdens for Providers

Foreign Regulators Are Trying To Censor Americans Online. A Bill Would Ensure Those Demands Are Unenforceable.

The proposed GRANITE Act looks to shield U.S. companies from foreign censorship orders.

FCC’s Digital Discrimination Rules Poised for a Narrower Rewrite

Any new rule issued under current FCC Chairman Brendan Car would likely be more limited in scope, panelists said

India’s ISP Copyright Problem – Self-Inflicted?

India’s intermediary liability framework has long struggled to reconcile copyright enforcement with the protections afforded to platforms under Section 79 of the IT Act. This tensi...

Ireland probes X over age assurance, parental control

Platforms that permit adult content must employ effective age assurance methods, according to Ireland's Online Safety Code. Read more: Ireland probes X over age assurance, parental...

Irish regulator probes X over age checks, with 10% of turnover at stake

Ireland’s media regulator has opened an investigation into whether X’s age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of re...

Part I: Small Fines, Big Platforms: The CCPA on PhysicsWallah, McAfee, and the Cost of Getting Caught

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has been going after dark patterns for some time now. In this two-part post, Anjali Tripathi and Kartik Sharma analyse the CCPA ord...

Regulation: DSA 02.OME: Defence Ordnance, Munitions and Explosives (OME) regulations

DSA 02.OME incorporates defence regulation of OME acquisition and OME in-service and operational safety management, defence ranges regulations, Defence Major Accident Control Regul...

‘Anthropic’s Weak Watermarks Appease a Weak Law’

James Padolsey, on the Claude-text-watermarking-to-comply-with-an-EU-regulation imbroglio: The same thought that led to this law could have applied to calculators at the time o...

California SB 343 Enforcement Preliminarily Enjoined: Regulation of Chasing Arrows and Recyclability Claims Escaping Enf...

Dynamic Injunctions, Website Blocking, and the Limits of Section 79 of the IT Act: Analysing the Delhi High Court’s HBO...

The Delhi High Court’s decision in Home Box Office Inc. v. Streamzy.To attempts to strike a balance between the need to effectively combat online piracy and the concerns raised by...

Social media for teens should be as tightly regulated as television | Letter

Stephanie Calman is mystified that the regulation of these massively profitable services is being left to the userAsking teenagers to limit their own social media use is a laughabl...

ChatGPT faces tougher rules under EU online safety regime

Reddit and Roblox also designated as very large online platforms under the bloc’s Digital Services Act

Real Madrid Members Question Rules Governing Criticism of Club

Real Madrid’s new social discipline rules draw scrutiny over clauses covering criticism, while also targeting ticket and season-pass resale. The post Real Madrid Members Question R...

CONAR Expands Controls on Betting Advertising in Brazil

Brazil’s National Advertising Self-Regulation Council (CONAR) has introduced a revised framework for betting advertising, adding new restrictions aimed at protecting children and a...

Is the recycling symbol free speech? A judge just ruled it could be.

The ruling pauses California's effort to limit the recycling symbol to products that are actually recycled, setting up a new First Amendment fight over environmental marketing.

Copyright Strikes and Free Speech: Rethinking Automated Takedowns on Social Media

The Delhi High Court (“DHC”), in the past month, has seen multiple ongoing cases where social media intermediaries’ copyright strike mechanism has come into question (see here and...

§ 230 Preempts Texas Mandates on Social Media Platforms, Fifth Circuit Holds by 2-1 Vote

An excerpt from the long opinion in Computer & Comm. Industry Ass'n v. Paxton, decided Friday by Fifth Circuit Judges… The post § 230 Preempts Texas Mandates on Social Media Pl...

An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online...

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online safety law, over Section 230 pr...