Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIt seems like every week there’s another Big Tech hearing accompanied by a flurry of mostly bad ideas for reform. Two events set last week’s hubbub apart, both involving Facebook. First, Mark Zuckerberg took a new step in his blatant effort to use . Second, new reports are demonstrating, if further demonstration were needed, how badly Facebook is failing at policing the content on its platform with any consistency whatsoever. The overall message is clear: if content moderation doesn’t work even with the kind of...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItIt seems like every week there’s another Big Tech hearing accompanied by a flurry of mostly bad ideas for reform. Two events set last week’s hubbub apart, both involving Facebook. First, Mark Zuckerberg took a new step in his blatant effort to use . Second, new reports are demonstrating, if further demonstration were needed, how badly Facebook is failing at policing the content on its platform with any consistency whatsoever. The overall message is clear: if content moderation doesn’t work even with the kind of...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItSection 230 Protects Intermediaries That Host Speech:Section 230 Protects Users Who Create Content:Harm to Data Privacy:Increased Censorship:Unintended Burdens on a Complex Ecosystem:As it stands, the injunctive relief exception to Section 230 poses a real danger to legitimate speech. Share ItCourts and legislatures around the globe are hotly debating to what degree online intermediaries—the chain of entities that facilitate or support speech on the internet—are liable for the content they help publish. One...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItSection 230 Protects Intermediaries That Host Speech:Section 230 Protects Users Who Create Content:Harm to Data Privacy:Increased Censorship:Unintended Burdens on a Complex Ecosystem:As it stands, the injunctive relief exception to Section 230 poses a real danger to legitimate speech. Share ItCourts and legislatures around the globe are hotly debating to what degree online intermediaries—the chain of entities that facilitate or support speech on the internet—are liable for the content they help publish. One...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItOn March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law —expired due to its sunset clause. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).In the week before the law expired, the House of Representatives passed the , without committee markup or floor amendments, which would have extended Section 215 for three more years, along with some modest...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItOn March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law —expired due to its sunset clause. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).In the week before the law expired, the House of Representatives passed the , without committee markup or floor amendments, which would have extended Section 215 for three more years, along with some modest...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItRecently, EFF joined the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and 26 other organizations to send a to the Senate opposing the EARN IT Act (S. 3398), asking that the Senate oppose fast tracking the bill, and to vote NO on passage of the bill.As we have before, if passed, the EARN IT Act would threaten free expression, harm innovation, and jeopardize important security protocols. We were pleased to join with other organizations that share our concerns about this harmful bill.We sent our letter, but your Senators...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItRecently, EFF joined the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and 26 other organizations to send a to the Senate opposing the EARN IT Act (S. 3398), asking that the Senate oppose fast tracking the bill, and to vote NO on passage of the bill.As we have before, if passed, the EARN IT Act would threaten free expression, harm innovation, and jeopardize important security protocols. We were pleased to join with other organizations that share our concerns about this harmful bill.We sent our letter, but your Senators...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItOn March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law —expired. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).In the week before the law expired, the House of Representatives passed the , without committee markup or floor amendments, which would have extended Section 215 for three more years, along with some modest reforms. In order for any bill to ,...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItOn March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law —expired. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).In the week before the law expired, the House of Representatives passed the , without committee markup or floor amendments, which would have extended Section 215 for three more years, along with some modest reforms. In order for any bill to ,...WW…