Section 10 — Digital Media
What law indemnifies ISPs from 3rd party and allows protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material?
Digital media are fully protected in the US under the First Amendment under what court case?
Is YouTube a private or a public forum, according to the decision in Prager v Google, 2020?
What is net neutrality?
What law does this describe? Before 1996, the first libel cases on the internet involved the principle that if an Internet Service Provider were to curate or edit any third-party content, then the ISP would be liable for that content. The idea of ___________ was to indemnify good faith curation for obscenity, libel, hate speech and other objectionable content so that an ISP would NOT be responsible for that content even if it was edited or later deleted.
In Google v Gonzalez, 2014, how did the European Court of Justice order the enforcement of the “right to be forgotten”? (This case is not related to a 2023 case with a similar name in the US).
In Gonzalez v Google, 2023, the Supreme Court heard a case involving Section 230. What was the Gonzalez argument?
Zeran v AOL, 1997, reaffirmed what law?
Can Google just change its search engine algorithms any old time it likes? What case decided this issue?
How does the “Imminent Action” standard from the Brandenburg v Ohio case relate to the de-platforming of Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection?
What are some examples of unfair social media policies?
Is (or should) social media (be) considered a “common carrier” to which all citizens should have equal access?
Who decides how internet assigns and creates domain names?
Are search engine rankings subject to objective analysis? What cases support your answer?
What is the NetChoice v Paxton case challenging the Texas HB 20 law of 2022?
What makes the Dominion v Fox libel suit of 2023 different as far as meeting “actual malice” standards for traditional media?
EC ESSAY QUESTIONS
Why do traditional remedies like lawsuits for libel and invasion of privacy fail to deter people who have easy access to the media and are already bankrupt, according to UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh?
In July of 2021, former president Donald Trump sued Facebook, Twitter and Google / YouTube under the US First Amendment for banning his social media accounts. How likely was he to succeed with the lawsuits?