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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

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However, those arguments were more theoretical than empirical; there weren’t a lot of high-profile examples of a mass-market consumer service deploying this strategy. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. Musk has bridged that gap. StopTheSADScheme. It’s not a tax.

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Announcing the 2022 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

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e-personation case (an edge case from a different era), and the decade-old social media e-discovery cases (mainstream CivPro by now). Taylor about true threats on social media. The Florida and Texas social media censorship laws and the associated court challenges. Social Media. eBay (2d Cir.).

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Announcing the 2021 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

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I’ve now framed it as a note about California’s consumer privacy laws. I did not add coverage of the Florida social media censorship law or NetChoice v. Part 312, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’s Regulations. An Introduction to California’s Consumer Privacy Laws (CCPA & CPRA).

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2021 Internet Law Year-in-Review

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First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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Two Separate Courts Reiterate That Online Age Authentication Mandates Are Unconstitutional

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The Supreme Court essentially struck down COPA in 2004 in Ashcroft v. In Arkansas, a law requiring parental consent before minors sign up for social media accounts didn’t survive intermediate scrutiny. 31, 2023) Arkansas’ law says minors need parental consent before creating social media accounts.

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2022 Internet Law Year-in-Review

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Two recent key developments were the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements.

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