from the so-it-was dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2021, we wrote about how critics of Section 230 should rethink their position considering their biggest allies were Senators Hawley and Cruz, while former FCC boss Tom Wheeler was continuing to misunderstand and misrepresent section 230 and the challenges of content moderation. Amazon’s decision to kick Parler off its web hosting service raised serious questions about content moderation at the infrastructure layer, which we dug into in depth. We also published thoughts from Paul Alan Levy on Twitter’s decision to ban Donald Trump’s account, shortly before Jack Dorsey came out with an clarification of how the decision was made.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2016, we looked at how despite fears of piracy Hollywood had yet another record-breaking year at the box office, which was even true with films that got leaked early like Hateful Eight. Louis Vuitton lost its trademark case against a man selling fake goods, because it hadn’t done enough to actively stop counterfeiters.
