Videos:
Section 230 (subsequent cases; 50 min)
Threat Speech (PP v ACLA) (week 8, 37 min)
Software as Speech (week 9, 31 min)
It turns out this is from 2017, but it's interesting DMCA news anyway.
https://adguard.com/en/blog/ad-blocking-is-under-attack.html
The DMCA allows takedown only for claims that the site is hosting copyrighted content. But content owners have been pushing that, sending takedown notices for content that they argue "contributes" to infringement, or which violates some other section of the DMCA. Github, for example, got takedown notices for hosting youtube-dl, a tool that allows downloading of YouTube videos. The example here is even stranger: one domain in the adblock domain list (functionalclam.com) was removed due to a DMCA request. The idea is that the DMCA bans tools that bypass "technological measures" that control access to a work. The theory is that adblockers are a technological measure that limits access to ads. From 17 USC 1201:
Of course the DMCA is supposed to be forbidding giving people more access to content than they should have, not less. And adblockers don't prevent access to ads. Ok, that's not the whole argument: part of it is that websites install anti-adblocking tools (like BlockAdblock), and ad-blockers then circumvent these tools, which have the goal of controlling access in the sense of requiring 100% access. Ad blockers circumvent the publisher's desire to present the entirety of their page.
Uh huh.
There is a court case in Germany
that rejected this theory in early 2022.
Criminal Libel
First Person Libel
Threat speech
Hate Speech in Germany
LICRA v Yahoo