Content from the following sources has been used in the creation of this casebook:

• Digital Platforms in the Age of Content Moderation

  Authors:

  • William Marks
  • 1: Day One: The Past, or The Era of Rights original
  • 1.1: “Three Eras of Digital Governance” by Jonathan Zittrain (2019). original
  • 1.2: “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto” by Timothy May (1988). original
  • 1.3: “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” by John Perry Barlow (1996). original
  • 1.4: “Code V.2” by Lawrence Lessig, Basic Books (2006). [Read Pages 1-8]. original
  • 1.5: "Some Peer-to-Peer, Democratically, and Voluntarily Produced Thoughts” by Ann Bartow, University of New Hampshire Scholars’ Repository (2007). original
  • 1.6: “Facebook is Running Anti-Vax Ads, Despite Its Ban on Vaccine Misinformation” by Caroline Haskins, Buzzfeed News (2020). original
  • 1.7: Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble, New York University Press (2018). [Read Chapter 1: "A Society, Searching." original
  • 2: Day Two: The Present, or the Era of Public Health original
  • 2.1: 47. U.S. Code § 230 (1996). original
  • 2.2: cda.wtf (2020). [Take the Quiz]. original
  • 2.3: “The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy and Reputation” by Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore, Harvard University Press (2010). [Read Introduction]. original
  • 2.4: “The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech” by Kate Klonick, Harvard Law Review (2018). [Read Section II]. original
  • 2.5: “Herrick v. Grindr: Why Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act Must be Fixed” by Carrie Goldberg, Lawfare (2019). original
  • 2.6: “Towards a Clearer Conversation about Platform Liability” by Daphne Keller, Knight First Amendment Institute (2018). original
  • 2.7: “Online networks of eating-disorder websites” by Antonio Casilli et al., Perspectives in Public Health (2013). original
  • 3: The Future, or (maybe) the Era of Legitimacy original
  • 3.1: “Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Democratize Facebook — Here’s What Happened When He Tried” by Adi Robertson, The Verge (2018). original
  • 3.2: “Google’s Comment-Ranking System Will Be a Hit with the Alt-Right” by Violet Blue, Engadget (2017). original
  • 3.3: “Just in CASE: Legislation Proposing Small-Claims Court for Copyright Disputes Headed to Congress” by Lauren Heperi, BYU Copyright (2019). original
  • 3.4: “A Jury of Random People Can Do Wonders for Facebook” by Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic (2019). original
  • 3.5: “Twitter's Least-Bad Option for Dealing with Donald Trump” by Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic (2020). original
  • 3.6: “The Technology 202: Lawmakers Unveil Bipartisan Proposal to Make Social Media Moderation More Transparent” by Cat Zakrzewski, The Washington Post (2020). original
  • 3.7: “The Facebook Oversight Board: Creating an Independent Institution to Adjudicate Online Free Expression” by Kate Klonick, Yale Law Journal (2020). [Read Abstract, Introduction, Sections I & III, Conclusion]. original
  • 4: Day Four: Global Platforms, Local Law original
  • 4.1: “Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World” by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu (2006). [Read Pages 1-22]. original
  • 4.2: “There May Soon Be Three Internets. America’s Won’t Necessarily Be the Best.” by the Editorial Board, The New York Times (2018). original
  • 4.3: “Google's Gatekeepers” Jeffrey Rosen, The New York Times Magazine (2008). original
  • 4.4: “Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules” by Adam Satariano, The New York Times (2019). original
  • 4.5: “Glawischnig-Piesczek vs. Facebook Ireland Limited” (2019) [Read Paragraphs 76-103; 109]. original
  • 4.7: “Trump Targets WeChat and TikTok, in Sharp Escalation with China” by Ana Swanson, Mike Isaac and Paul Mozur, The New York Times (2020). original
  • 5: Day Five: Deplatforming original
  • 5.1: Community Standards, Facebook (2020). original
  • 5.2: The Twitter Rules, Twitter (2020). original
  • 5.3: “Terminating Service for 8Chan” by Matthew Prince, The Cloudflare Blog (2019). original
  • 5.4: “The Lawless Way to Disable 8Chan” by Evelyn Douek, The Atlantic (2019). original
  • 5.5: “AirBnB Cancels Accounts Linked to White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville” by Jonah Bromwich, The New York Times (2017). original
  • 5.6: “Uber, Lyft ban right-wing activist after anti-Islamic tweets” by Zac Estrada, The Verge (2017). original
  • 5.7: “Facebook Bars Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan and Others From Its Services” by Mike Isaac and Kevin Roose, The New York Times (2019). original
  • 5.8: “What is the Streisand Effect?” by T.C., The Economist (2013). original
  • 5.9: “William F. Buckley Program at Yale Hosts its Second Annual 'Disinvitation Dinner'” by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, The Washington Post (2016). original
  • 6: Day Six: Federation vs. Top-down Governance original
  • 6.1: Youtube's Community Guidelines, Google (2020). original
  • 6.2: Reddit Content Policy, Reddit (2020). original
  • 6.3: Nextdoor Community Guidelines, Nextdoor (2020). original
  • 6.4: “Facebook Groups are Falling Apart over Black Lives Matter Posts” by Nick Statt, The Verge (2020). original
  • 6.5: “WhatsApp Says its Forwarding Limits Have Cut the Spread of Viral Messages by 70 Percent” by Manish Singh, TechCrunch (2020). original
  • 6.6: “Reddit Bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as Part of a Major Expansion of its Rules” by Casey Newton, The Verge (2020). original
  • 6.7: “It's 'Our Fault': Nextdoor CEO Takes Blame For Deleting Of Black Lives Matter Posts” by Bobby Allyn, NPR (2020). original
  • 6.8: “Algorithmic Content Moderation: Technical and Political Challenges in the Automation of Platform Governance” by Robert Gorwa, Reuben Binns, and Christian Katzenbach, Big Data and Society (2020). original
  • 6.9: “The Trauma Floor” by Casey Newton, The Verge (2019). original