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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

US House of Representatives Pass the Take it Down Act

On April 28, 2025, the US House of Representatives voted 409-2 to pass S.146, the Take it Down Act. The bill aims to stop the misuse of Artificial Intelligence (AI) created illicit imagery and Deepfake Abuse. The bill will...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Escaping Orwell’s Memory Hole: Why Digital Truth Should Outlast Big Brother

George Orwell warned us in his dark masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four how effortlessly authoritarian regimes could erase inconvenient truths by tossing records into a “memory hole”—a pneumatic chute leading directly to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FTC Requests Input from Tech Platform Users About Speech

The Federal Trade Commission recently requested public comment from users of tech platforms. In particular, the impact the platforms may have on user speech. Input is sought -by May 21- on the extent to which tech firms are...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Federal Trade Commission Launches an Inquiry into Censorship by Big Tech Platforms

On February 20, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated a public inquiry regarding whether any technology platforms, including social media, communications, and other internet service providers, have violated the...more

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FTC Chair Requests Information on Big Tech “Censorship”

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On Thursday, February 20, 2025, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced a Request for Information (RFI) for “public submissions from anyone who has been a victim of tech censorship (banning, demonetization, shadow banning,...more

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FTC Launches Inquiry into Censorship in Technology Platforms

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The FTC announced the launch of a public inquiry into how technology platforms engage in censorship. In agency’s Request for Information explains that it seeks information from members of the public about how technology...more

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FTC opens discussion on “Technology Platform Censorship”

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The FTC recently requested public comment “to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade (such as by ‘demonetizing’ and ‘shadow banning’) users’ access to services based on the content of the users’ speech or...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

In the Supreme Court’s NetChoice Rulings, the Court Leaves the Door Open for Future Social Media Content Moderation Regulations

Are social media companies more like newspapers or phone companies? This oft-debated question in social media legal circles, while seemingly trivial on the surface, represents a momentous debate over whether—and how...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

In Murthy v. Missouri, SCOTUS Focus on Plaintiff Standing Sidesteps Underlying, Larger First Amendment Questions

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision may have substantial effects on social media censorship. Based on their content-moderation policies, social media platforms have taken actions to suppress certain categories of speech,...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Projet de loi C-63 du Canada : La Loi sur les préjudices en ligne cible le contenu préjudiciable sur les médias sociaux

Le 26 février 2024, le gouvernement fédéral a présenté le projet de loi C-63 (le « projet de loi »), qui édicterait la Loi sur les préjudices en ligne (la « Loi ») et établirait le premier régime fédéral visant à modérer le...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Canada’s Bill C-63: Online Harms Act Targets Harmful Content on Social Media

On February 26, 2024, the federal government tabled Bill C-63 (Bill), which would enact the Online Harms Act (Act) and establish Canada’s first federal online content moderation regime....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Is Everything Better in Moderation? Circuit Split on Content Moderation to Be Heard by SCOTUS

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On February 26, 2024, the United States Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in two cases currently before the Court, Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton. At their core, these cases raise the question as to...more

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AGs Add Their Voice to Free Speech Challenge to Social Media Censorship Laws

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19 Republican AGs, joined by Republican legislative leaders from Arizona, filed an amicus brief in U.S. Supreme Court cases Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, supporting Florida and Texas laws, respectively, that bar...more

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Injunction on Government-Social Media Communication Opposed by Democratic AGs

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21 Democratic AGs filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit asking it to overturn a preliminary injunction barring communication between federal officials and agencies and social-media...more

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New Measures for Online Advertising in China: What You Need to Know

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China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) recently issued the Measures for the Administration of Internet Advertising (New Measures), which will take effect on May 1, 2023, and replace the Interim Measures for...more

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#NoFilter: Can States Regulate the Content of Social Media Platforms?

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In this edition of #NoFilter, we will examine a recent September 16, 2022, decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a Texas state law impacting the power of social media platforms to moderate content on...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Insights into Texas’ Content Moderation Law

On May 31, the US Supreme Court reinstated an injunction first implemented in December 2021 regarding HB 20, the Texas law prohibiting social media companies from certain content moderation based on viewpoints. Its decision...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Court Enjoins Texas Social Media “Censorship” Law

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On December 1, 2021, Judge Pitman of the Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction to prevent the Texas Attorney General from enforcing HB 20. NetChoice v. Paxton. HB 20 prohibits large social media platforms...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

District Court Enjoins Controversial Texas House Bill 20

Over the past several years, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the federal law that provides social media platforms with immunity from liability for user content and was once hailed as “the law that gave us the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

The New Age of Content Moderation(?)

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The huge search and social media platforms of the internet are reaching an inflection point. For decades they have been able to deflect attention from their role as content providers. The issue is now front and center in our...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Trump vs. Twitter: The Feud Over Section 230 and Online Censorship

As part of Spilman's Decoded: Technology Law Insights e-newsletter, Spilman members Joseph Schaeffer and Nick Mooney discuss Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and how it plays into President Trump's recent...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

[Webinar] #FreeSpeech: Perspectives from the UK and the US on Social Media Liability for Fake News, Damaging Content and...

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Greenberg Glusker and Farrer & Co are delighted to present a joint webinar during which reputation management and media specialists from both firms will discuss: - Key legal developments in the UK and US related to Big...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order on preventing online censorship. While the order is explicitly aimed at curbing “selective censorship” of content by “large, powerful social media companies,” the effects...more

Fenwick & West LLP

European Parliament Endorses Upload Filters

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In September 2016, the European Commission, which is the executive cabinet for the European Union, issued a Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. On...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

China Imposes Broad New Restrictions on Publication of Internet Content

New rules just published by the PRC impose new licensing and censorship requirements on almost all internet content providers, including publishers and aggregators of news, advertisements, social media content and mobile...more

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