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

**Material Support Lawsuits:**

> [](https://twitter.com/ericgoldman/status/752549644811460608)   “The floodgates have opened for lawsuits vs social media sites for supporting terrorist orgs. Latest target: [Facebook](https://t.co/zBv7DxwH7X)” – Eric Goldman [(@ericgoldman)](https://twitter.com/ericgoldman): July 11, 2016

> [Facebook, Hamas, and Why a New Material Support Suit May Have Legs](https://www.lawfareblog.com/facebook-hamas-and-why-new-material-support-suit-may-have-legs) (July 12, 2016); [Another Material Support Suit Against Social Media Companies](https://www.lawfareblog.com/another-material-support-suit-against-social-media-companies) (June 21, 2016); and [Twitter, ISIS, Civil Liability, and Immunity: An Update](https://www.lawfareblog.com/twitter-isis-civil-liability-and-immunity-update-0) (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](https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-google-facebook-quietly-move-toward-automatic-blocking-002529206–finance.html) (June 24, 2016) – Yahoo News

> [Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft Agree to EU Hate Speech Rules](http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/31/11817540/facebook-twitter-google-microsoft-hate-speech-europe) (May 31, 2016) – The Verge

> [European Commission and IT Companies Announce Code of Conduct on Illegal Online Hate Speech](http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1937_en.htm) (May 31, 2016) – EU Press Release; and the related [Code of Conduct](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/fundamental-rights/files/hate_speech_code_of_conduct_en.pdf) (pdf; 3 pages)

**Previously:** See my prior post (03.07.2016): [Pressure for Regulating Online Speech Related to Terrorism](https://www.jrmchale.org/2016/02/budding-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)](http://chinalawtranslate.com/反恐怖主义法-（2015）/?lang=en) at China Law Translate

> See also: [What China’s Anti-Terrorism Legislation Actually Says](https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-chinas-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](http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-antiterror-law-doesnt-require-encryption-code-handovers-1451270383) – Wall Street Journal

[China’s New Anti-Terror Law: No Backdoors, but Decryption on Demand](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/chinas-new-anti-terror-law-copies-uk-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](http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1893924/cyberspace-chinas-aim-control-and-censor-no-matter-what-it?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=SCMPSocialNewsfeed) – Zhou Zunyou op-ed in South China Morning Post

[U.S., China Vow Not to Engage in Economic Cyberespionage](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-china-vow-not-to-engage-in-economic-cyberespionage/2015/09/25/90e74b6a-63b9-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html) – Washington Post (09.25.2015);   [What Explains the U.S.-China Cyber ‘Agreement’?](https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-explains-us-china-cyber-agreement) – Jack Goldsmith at LawFare ; [Why the U.S.-China Cyber Spying Ban Will Inevitably Fail](http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-the-us-china-cyber-spying-ban-will-inevitably-fail-14219?page=show) – Jennifer McArdle at The National Interest

[Courage on Trial in China](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/opinion/courage-on-trial-in-china.html?_r=0) – Ai Weiwei op-ed in New York Times;   [‘I’m a Petitioner – Open Fire!’
Chaohua Wang on Justice in China](http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n21/chaohua-wang/im-a-petitioner-open-fire) – London Review of Books;   [How ‘Picking Quarrels’ Became Beijing’s Go-To Weapon in Anti-dissident Lawfare](https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/12/22/how-picking-quarrels-became-beijings-go-to-weapon-in-anti-dissident-lawfare/) – Hong Kong Free Press

[Microsoft Failed to Warn Victims of Chinese Email Hack: Allegations by Former Employees](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-china-insight-idUSKBN0UE01Z20160101) – Reuters

01/6/2016: