Computer Ethics, Summer 2020 online, Class 9

Miniwriting

Write a few sentences on the Sakai forum, or, if you really prefer, send them to me by email. I'd like them by the next class.

Class 9 Readings

Videos:

• Speech 1, on an intro to §230
• Speech 2, on continued §230 cases

Readings:

• Free Speech: Chapter 3     (we will probably start this by next Thursday, June 11)

Hertz wants to sell $1Bn in stock

But they are bankrupt. So the stock should be worthless. Why is this happening? Hint: the Robinhood trading app may have something to do with it.

See bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-12/if-you-want-hertz-have-some-hertz.

§230 and Doe v MySpace

Summary of other §230 cases

• Anonymous postings
• Chicago Lawyers v Craigslist
• Dart v Craigslist
• Jones v The Dirty
• Doe v Model Mayhem
• Hassell v Bird
• Herrick v Grindr
• Daniel v Armslist

Strategies to bypass §230:

• distributor liability
• site caused harm
• content violates a federal law (eg housing discrimination)
• Site encouraged the content (Jones v The Dirty)
• site violated a duty to warn (as in Model Mayhem), or perhaps some other duty
• product liability; site was defective (Herrick)
• negligence (Armslist)
• The website is a third party

Backpage

    What did Craigslist do that Backpage did not?

§230 in Europe and the Google convictions

Threat speech

LICRA v Yahoo

Right to Censor Google

Source Code