Daphne Keller
Platform Regulation Director, Stanford Cyber Policy Center. Usually knows what she's talking about. Former Google AGC.
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If Lawmakers Don't Like Platforms' Speech Rules, Here's What They Can Do About It. Spoiler: The Options Aren't Great.
What should platforms like Facebook or YouTube do when users post speech that is technically legal, but widely abhorred? In the U.S. that has included things like the horrific video of the 2019 massacre in Christchurch. What about harder calls...
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Daphne Keller
I've written about this idea under the moniker of "Magic APIs." I am very focused on the barriers – how will privacy work, how will ads work, etc. I raise these not as a naysayer, but as someone identifying where the work needs to be done. 4/
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
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Daphne Keller
Here is @mmasnick's highly relevant work on the "protocols not platforms" concept. 2/
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Testifying at the Senate about A.I.‑Selected Content on the Internet—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolfram’s written testimony to the US Senate regarding algorithm transparency. He explains some of the complex intellectual and scientific problems involved, then offers two possible suggestions for paths forward.
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Daphne Keller
Curious about this "algorithmic choice" thing @jack just brought up in the hearing? It's a really important idea. It needs a lot of tire-kicking, but we should be doing that.
Here is the Stephen Wolfram testimony he mentioned
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Another Facebook worker quits in disgust, saying the company ‘is on the wrong side of history’
Ashok Chandwaney, a former software engineer at Facebook, resigned over the company’s election policies.Chona Kasinger Facebook software engineer Ashok Chandwaney has watched with growing unease as the platform has become a haven for hate. On...
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Daphne Keller
Come on, journalists. Covering tech apostate schtick as if it were news was already embarrassing five years ago. There are legit critiques, but “a person who’s quitting said this” doesn’t all by itself add to their authority or validity.
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If Lawmakers Don't Like Platforms' Speech Rules, Here's What They Can Do About It. Spoiler: The Options Aren't Great.
What should platforms like Facebook or YouTube do when users post speech that is technically legal, but widely abhorred? In the U.S. that has included things like the horrific video of the 2019 massacre in Christchurch. What about harder calls...
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Daphne Keller
What are lawmakers' options for regulating "lawful but awful" speech, or regulating platforms' enforcement against such content under private Terms of Service? I wrote a think piece on this for @techdirt's Greenhouse series.
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Facebook Knows It Encourages Division. Top Executives Nixed Solutions.
The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.
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Daphne Keller
And then there are the stories about US executives, who also have strong government ties and deeply influence Facebook content policy. 7/
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Brazil judge fines Facebook for not blocking Bolsonaro supporters
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge slapped Facebook with a 1.92 million reais ($367,710) fine on Friday for not complying with an order to block globally certain accounts controlled by supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro implicated in a fake news...
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Daphne Keller
Once upon a time I had read every DMCA 512 case. That ended years ago.
Once upon a time I had read every global takedown ruling in English (AFAIK), and read up on any others that made the news. Sadly, that is ending now too. There are just too damn many.
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Internet Archive: Jobs
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Daphne Keller
Great job for a lawyer with a couple year’s experience and an interest in intermediary liability, through the lens of a great and unique public interest institution.
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Tech Firms’ Counterterrorism Forum Threatens Rights
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Daphne Keller
This is a good moment to pay attention because GIFCT is in the middle of overhauling its internal governance, and a lot of civil society groups are very vocally disappointed by the direction it’s taking. See this hrw.org/news/2020/07/3… or this blog.witness.org/2020/07/witnes… 2/
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CDA 230 Reform Grows Up: The PACT Act Has Problems, But It’s Talking About the Right Things
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Daphne Keller
Why the PACT Act is worlds better than EARN IT, even if it still has far to go. My take
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Russia: European Court judgment is victory for freedom of expression - ARTICLE 19
ARTICLE 19 welcomes a series of decisions by the European Court of Human Rights against Russia involving website blocking by Roskomnadzor, the executive body responsible for media and telecommunications censorship. Today, the Court found that the...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Cyber Policy Center Online Series | Patterns of and Potential Solutions to Disinformation Sharing, Under COVID-19 and Beyond. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join Cyber Policy Center, June 17th at 10am Pacific Time for Patterns of and Potential Solutions to Disinformation Sharing, Under COVID-19 and Beyond, with Josh Tucker, David Lazer and Evelyn Douek.
The session will explore which types of readers...
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Daphne Keller
June 17 @ 10am PST @Stanford_Cyber hosts Harvard’s @evelyndouek, NYU’s @j_a_tucker & Northeastern’s @davidlazer exploring latest research on online disinformation: who's sharing, who’s susceptible, how much is out there, and what might be done. Join here
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Broad Consequences of a Systemic Duty of Care for Platforms
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Daphne Keller
I got so spooked by people who seemed to think I was endorsing this duty of care model, I put a big disclaimer in the post. I think proactive monitoring as a "duty of care" hurts fundamental rights. It also might just break intermediary liability law.
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Statement By FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel On Executive Order
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Daphne Keller
Strong words from FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on the 230 Executive Order. fcc.gov/document/state… pic.twitter.com/rcmcsyyi6F
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EO on Platforms
A Quick Take on the May 26 Executive Order on Platforms and CDA 230 Color coding: Red: Atmospherics. Politically and philosophically interesting and important in the long term, as I discuss here, but not legally effective as part of an executive...
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Daphne Keller
To aid in this endeavor, here is my color coded and annotated copy of the Executive Order in CDA 230 and platforms. docs.google.com/document/d/1Jn… twitter.com/daphnehk/statu…
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Who Ultimately Decides What Content Is Removed From Facebook? Now We Do
Introducing the company’s independent oversight board.
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Daphne Keller
Strange days indeed if my feed isn't blowing up with comments about the people named as co-chairs of Facebook's Oversight Board. Catalina Botero-Marino, Jamal Greene, Michael W. McConnell and Helle Thorning-Schmidt authored this boldly titled op ed today.
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To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data
The information, intended for use in counterterrorism, would help identify people who have crossed paths with known patients.
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Daphne Keller
Oh, look. Israel has a “vast and previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data,” and they’re disclosing it now to get public support for using it “to retrace the movements of people who have contracted the coronavirus.”
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Copyright Law in Foreign Jurisdictions: How are other countries handling digital piracy? | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Daphne Keller
Off to give U.S. Senate testimony about the DMCA, Article 17 of the EU Copyright/DSM Directive, and user rights.
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How Automated Tools Discriminate Against Black Language
Platforms can have the power to not only moderate content, but also to moderate language itself
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Daphne Keller
This post about disparate impact and bias in automated content moderation tools is amazing.
onezero.medium.com/how-automated-…
Thanks to @HBWHBWHBW for a footnote that led me to it!
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EARN IT Act Could Hurt Kids and Undermine Privacy of All Americans - TechFreedom
WASHINGTON D.C. Today, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced legislation that would force operators websites, messaging services and other tools for sharing images and videos to do more to combat the spread of child...
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Daphne Keller
Really solid detail here on the problems with the Byzantine EARN IT Act. It skips obvious measures - like doing things Congress and DOJ *already committed* to fight CSAM - in favor of a “ticking constitutional time bomb” that may make that fight harder.
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