Digital Platforms: Responsibilities Then and Now (Fall 2019)

Resource 2 . 2

“The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech” by Kate Klonick, Harvard Law Review (2018). Read Section II.

John Bowers

What led platforms to change their approach to moderating online speech? Given the immunity provided by § 230, why moderate at all? What does this tell us about the incentives to which platforms respond?
 

“The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech” by Kate Klonick, Harvard Law Review (2018). Read Section II.

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