The speech conveyed by the controversial ICEBlock application now banned from Apple’s App Store is very likely constitutional, but winning a potential jawboning case against the government for allegedly coercing Apple to remove it would inevitably prove difficult and expensive. The post Apple’s Removal of ICE-Location Apps: Examining First Amendment Issues appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
A survey conducted for the Freedom Forum about one month before Charlie Kirk’s assassination reveals that many people––especially younger ones––already feared speaking out due to potentially negative consequences. Dialing back retributive impulses that chill online expression and foster self-censorship is essential for a robust pluralistic society. The post Fear of Speaking Out Online: Data and Contentions About Self-Censorship appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
The African Centre for Cities hosted the second how to write about platformization workshop in February 2025 in Cape Town.| African Centre for Cities
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to permeate across different industry sectors, offering unprecedented opportunities alongside significant risks. Effective governance necessitates coordinated cross-border efforts to build institutional expertise, dispel misconceptions, foster innovation, and align global safety priorities. Advocating structured dialogue and a bottom-up approach, Oscar Borgogno and Alessandra Perrazzelli present a proposal which aims to avoid institutional redundancy and...| ProMarket
Back at the end of June, Canada passed C-18, aka “The Online News Act,” a law designed to make Google and Facebook negotiate with news providers for linking to news. In theory, C-18 is based on the Australia News Media Bargaining Code, which Australia adopted in 2021. It also follows...Continue reading| Wetmachine
Every now and then, I do some legislative drafting. I tend to get pushback on my habit of including a bunch of legislative findings and statements of policy, and what some consider my over-detailed definitions. The usual challenge I get is| Wetmachine