Routledge research in Information Technology and e-Commerce law
Summary note
"This book analyses questions of platform bias, algorithmic filtering and ranking of Internet speech, and declining perceptions of online freedom. Courts have intervened against biased platforms in important cases, but they have deferred to private sector decisions in many others, particularly in the United States. The First Amendment, human rights law, competition law, section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and an array of state and foreign laws address bad faith conduct by Internet platforms or other commercial actors. Arguing that the problem of platform neutrality is similar to the net neutrality problem, the book discusses the assault on freedom of speech that emerges from public-private partnerships. The book draws parallels between U.S. constitutional and statutory doctrines relating to shared spaces and the teachings of international human rights bodies relating to the responsibilities of private actors. It also connects the dots between new rights to appeal account or post removals under the Digital Services Act of the European Union and a variety of fair treatment obligations of platforms under American and European competition laws, "public accommodations" laws, and public utilities laws. Discussing artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, the book explores overlaps between European and U.S. efforts to limit algorithmic censorship or "shadow-banning". The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of cyberlaw, the law of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Swartz's law : the rise of AI censors
Carceral communications law : freedom and censors in the public sphere
Coordinated inauthentic activity : private police and political dissent
The freedom of reach : kingly power versus knowledge commons
Locking the web "open" : paths to a neutral online environment
Conclusion : authoritarianism and freedom in technocracy.
ISBN
9781032758190 (hardcover)
1032758198 (hardcover)
9781032802633 (paperback)
1032802634 (paperback)
LCCN
2024006823
OCLC
1418750383
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