Eric Goldman, ‘Content Moderation Remedies’, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review (forthcoming, 2021), available at SSRN. What are the appropriate remedies when Internet services, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, publish anti-social user content? Although regulators and analysts have pondered issues such as what constitutes offending content and who should decide the question, the issue of appropriate remedies needs development. This important question is the subject of an excellent article, ‘Content Moderation Remedies’, by Eric Goldman. Notwithstanding that the dominant strategy has been removal of the offending content, Goldman urges a more nuanced approach. He compiles useful and comprehensive examples of alternative remedies short of removal that Internet services already have employed and develops a helpful framework for determining when such remedies may be superior … (more)
[Robert Hillman, JOTWELL, 1 September]
First posted 2021-09-02 09:00:00
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