Digital Regulation Archives - The Future of Free Speech

Tech Policy Press: Will the DSA Save Democracy? The Test of the Recent Presidential Election in Romania

Posted on 01.27.2025 by Joan Barata in Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, News, Our Perspectives

By Joan Barata Voting manipulation through social media platforms. Illegal campaign financing on TikTok. Cyber-attacks. Suspected Russian interference. The circumstances around Romania’s troubled December presidential election bear all the hallmarks of a modern political thriller. But the circumstances around the election and its annulment also present an opportunity to consider the application of Europe’s Digital Services Act […]

Statement on Supreme Court TikTok Ban Decision

Posted on 01.17.202501.27.2025 by Justin Hayes in Digital Regulation, First Amendment, News, News Desk

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 15, 2025 — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Today, the Supreme Court [upheld, overturned, delayed] the law that would ban TikTok in the United States. The Future of Free Speech, a nonpartisan think tank that recently submitted an amicus brief to the court in this case, has issued the following statement in response. […]

El Diario: EU Drags Its Feet in the Face of Musk and Zuckerberg’s Challenge Amid The Fervor of the Far Right

Posted on 01.13.202501.27.2025 by Jordi Calvet-Bademunt in Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, In the news, News, Online Content Moderation

By Irene Castro and Carlos del Castillo The spread of fake news and disinformation was one of the major issues facing the European Union during the last legislative period, when new legislation was introduced to regulate online life. The intention of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DSA) is to make […]

WSJ: Banning TikTok Would Violate America’s Free Speech Tradition

Posted on 01.02.2025 by Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff in Digital Regulation, Featured News, First Amendment, News, Our Perspectives

By Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff A heavy-handed new law forced TikTok to announce that it would shut down operations “within days.” Although the law left people without a popular forum to share and access information, a government official brushed off free speech concerns, saying that the ban did not mean “doom and gloom” for the […]

Le Point: Freedom of Expression: When Censorship Seduces Democracies, to Their Risks and Perils

Posted on 12.31.202401.02.2025 by Jacob Mchangama in Digital Regulation, Free Speech History, Global Free Speech, Hate Speech, In the news, News

By Peggy Sastre The excerpt below is a rough English translation. Read the original in French here. Jacob Mchangama, a Danish legal scholar and author of a notable history of freedom of expression from the time of Socrates to the era of social media, is now one of the most insightful analysts of this fundamental […]

The Center Square: Emergency Petition Urges Halt to TikTok ban

Posted on 12.09.202412.17.2024 by Jeff Kosseff in Digital Regulation, First Amendment, In the news, News

By Shirleen Guerra The Liberty Justice Center filed an emergency petition alongside some TikTok creators, asking the court to halt the Jan. 19 ban until the U.S. Supreme Court gives its final ruling on the legal challenge. The emergency petition argues that the act violates the First Amendment because it bans all speech on TikTok, even […]

Washington Post: TikTok Asks Court to Pause Law that Could Shut Down App in U.S. Next Month

Posted on 12.09.2024 by Jeff Kosseff in Digital Regulation, First Amendment, In the news, News

By Cristiano Lima-Strong and Drew Harwell TikTok asked a federal appeals court Monday to temporarily halt a law that could close down the app in the United States next month so the Supreme Court can review the matter. [ . . . ] Jeff Kosseff, senior fellow at The Future of Free Speech, a think tank […]

CELE: Threatening Dynamics on Internet Governance: The Case of Europe and The Digital Services Act (DSA)

Posted on 11.13.202411.18.2024 by Joan Barata in Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, News, Online Content Moderation, Our Perspectives

By Joan Barata As part of their research on the topic, CELE has characterized a threat of regulation as “any kind of public or private utterance or action by public officials who hold regulatory power over others in which they express, suggest, or imply, clearly or veiledly, their desire to see their subject’s conduct move […]

Tech Policy Press: Safeguarding Freedom of Expression in the AI Era

Posted on 11.04.202411.05.2024 by Jordi Calvet-Bademunt in AI, Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, News, Our Perspectives

By Jordi Calvet-Bademunt The European Union (EU) adopted the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act in June 2024. Hailed as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law,” the AI Act includes a set of obligations for high-impact general-purpose AI models, which will start applying next year. Models are presumed to have a “high impact” when they have a certain amount of computation power. According […]

The Future of Free Speech Joins The Global Network Initiative (GNI)

Posted on 10.31.202410.31.2024 by Justin Hayes in Digital Regulation, Global Free Speech, News, News Desk, Online Content Moderation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NASHVILLE, Tenn. October 31, 2024 — Today, The Future of Free Speech is excited to announce its membership in the Global Network Initiative (GNI), joining an influential community of organizations dedicated to advancing free expression and privacy in the digital space. The Global Network Initiative sets a global standard for responsible company […]