October 29
Class 10 ReadingsBy this point you should have read all of chapter 2.
You should soon begin reading Baase Chapter 3 on Speech.Another perspective on paper 2:
Late last week, github.com took down YouTube-dl, a Python tool for downloading YouTube videos, upon receipt of what looked like a takedown notice from the RIAA. Github promptly complied, and the YouTube-dl page contained only this: github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md.
But there is something missing. Section 512 takedown notices are supposed to be claiming copyright on the hosted content. The RIAA was clearly not doing that.
Microsoft owns Github, so clearly Github has good legal advice. (That might be why the site is back up.) Microsoft is also a member of the RIAA.
What the RIAA appears really to be interested in is expanding the reach of 17 USC 1201 (emphasis added)
References: Morbius, joindiaspora.com/posts/19279710.
CBP and tracking
Apparently CBP (Customs and Border Patrol) is tracking people (including US citizens) by buying location information from companies (such as Venntel) that gather it from people's phones. See vice.com/en/article/n7vwex/cbp-dhs-venntel-location-data-no-warrant. I am not sure, but I think they can connect that location history with a phone's IMSI signals, as obtained via Stingrays.
But that's not quite an indication that, yes, it's time to move forward. Rather, the changes proposed by Zuckerberg would help FB, and harm smaller competitors.
Though maybe not by so much. Supposedly the plan FB favors is similar to the PACT Act proposal: sites would have to post their moderation standards, and create a mechanism for appealing takedowns.
Fosta/Sesta
So who is entitled to a §230 exception?
Criminal Libel
McLibel
Threat Speech is different
Licra v Yahoo
Google and being forgotten
Source code as speech