Recent Developments in Material Support Lawsuits and Regulation of Online Hate Speech

Material Support Lawsuits:

  “The floodgates have opened for lawsuits vs social media sites for supporting terrorist orgs. Latest target: Facebook” – Eric Goldman (@ericgoldman): July 11, 2016

Facebook, Hamas, and Why a New Material Support Suit May Have Legs (July 12, 2016); Another Material Support Suit Against Social Media Companies (June 21, 2016); and Twitter, ISIS, Civil Liability, and Immunity: An Update (May 5, 2016) – Benjamin Wittes (and Zoe Bedell for the July 12th post) at LawFare

Regulation of Online Hate Speech:

Google, Facebook Quietly Move Toward Automatic Blocking of Extremist Videos (June 24, 2016) – Yahoo News

Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft Agree to EU Hate Speech Rules (May 31, 2016) – The Verge

European Commission and IT Companies Announce Code of Conduct on Illegal Online Hate Speech (May 31, 2016) – EU Press Release; and the related Code of Conduct (pdf; 3 pages)

Previously: See my prior post (03.07.2016): Pressure for Regulating Online Speech Related to Terrorism

07/13/2016: 

China’s New Anti-Terrorism Law and Encryption

Unofficial Translation:

Counter-Terrorism Law (2015) at China Law Translate

See also: What China’s Anti-Terrorism Legislation Actually Says – Benjamin Bissell at LawFare

News Reports:

China Antiterror Law Doesn’t Require Encryption Code Handovers; but Law Passed by Rubber-stamp Parliament Sunday Still Raises Concerns About its Scope and Impact – Wall Street Journal

China’s New Anti-Terror Law: No Backdoors, but Decryption on Demand – ArsTechnica

Related – on China:

In Cyberspace, China’s Aim is to Control and Censor, No Matter What it Says – Zhou Zunyou op-ed in South China Morning Post

U.S., China Vow Not to Engage in Economic Cyberespionage – Washington Post (09.25.2015);   What Explains the U.S.-China Cyber ‘Agreement’? – Jack Goldsmith at LawFare ; Why the U.S.-China Cyber Spying Ban Will Inevitably Fail – Jennifer McArdle at The National Interest

Courage on Trial in China – Ai Weiwei op-ed in New York Times;   ‘I’m a Petitioner – Open Fire!’ Chaohua Wang on Justice in China – London Review of Books;   How ‘Picking Quarrels’ Became Beijing’s Go-To Weapon in Anti-dissident Lawfare – Hong Kong Free Press

Microsoft Failed to Warn Victims of Chinese Email Hack: Allegations by Former Employees – Reuters

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