Tag: content moderation
Digital India’s Regulatory Paradox
Access Now at the 2020 Internet Governance Forum: “Internet for human resilience and solidarity”
Here’s where you find Access Now staff at the Internet Governance Forum 2020, which focuses on strategies for using the internet to increase human resilience and solidarity.
Internet censorship in Tanzania: the price of free expression online keeps getting higher
The government has replaced bad regulations with new ones that enable the same kind of harmful internet censorship in Tanzania. Not only does the new law stifle free expression, it allows the government to profit from ratcheting up online censorship and control.
How the Digital Services Act could hack Big Tech’s human rights problem
Tech companies are exercising enormous power without taking sufficient responsibility to safeguard our rights, leaving us prey to abuse. The Digital Services Act is a chance for the EU to establish clear responsibilities for private actors and hold them to account, while ensuring our rights are protected.
‘Social media platforms will be held liable for failure to counter misuse’: CEC
Unpacking the PACT Act
The PACT Act is the most reasonable approach we’ve seen to date to reform Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act. While not the silver bullet solution, the bill has the potential to move us in the right direction on liability reform.
Hate Speech on Facebook Is Pushing Ethiopia Dangerously Close to a Genocide
Open letter to Facebook on violence-inciting speech: Act now to protect Ethiopians
Civil society organizations and individuals from around the world are calling on Facebook to immediately take action to stop its services from being used to incite violence, propagate hatred, and advance discrimination in Ethiopia.
Open letter to Facebook on violence-inciting speech: act now to protect Ethiopians
Civil society organizations and individuals from around the world are calling on Facebook to immediately take action to stop its services from being used to incite violence, propagate hatred, and advance discrimination in Ethiopia.
Brazil Congress moving forward disinformation bill that brings free expression and privacy harms to new levels
Brazilian senators are expected to vote this Thursday, June 25, on a bill aiming to curb the spread of misinformation that require ID registration to access and use social media in the country, among other dangerous provisions.