Internet Safe Havens are Becoming Less Safe
One of the most important laws protecting online speech is also one of the worst. You’ve probably heard of it. In 1998, President Bill Clinton passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA. It’s the law that, for example, makes it all too easy for companies to have embarrassing content removed from sites like YouTube by […]
How A Turkish Coup Highlighted An Unfortunate Truth
Over the weekend, the internet may have saved the regime of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In a blinding display of irony, the longtime critic and proponent for strict regulation of the internet utilized Apple’s Facetime video-calling app to mobilize citizens against a military coup. Erdogan, who was on vacation at the time of […]