Recorded Webinar—Algorithmic Choice or Regulatory Overreach?: A Look at Missouri’s Proposed Social Media Rule

Webinar

Panelists:
Berin Szóka, President, TechFreedom
Daphne Keller, Director, Program on Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School’s Cyber Policy Center
Chris Marchese, Director, Litigation Center, NetChoice

About:
Missouri’s Attorney General has proposed a new rule that would require large social media platforms to give users a choice between the platform’s own content moderation algorithm and third-party alternatives. The proposed rule reflects a growing trend of state efforts to regulate content moderation, raising significant questions about free speech. Our panel of experts will explore these concerns and the practicality of enforcing algorithmic neutrality in today’s digital landscape.

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Burning the House Down to Roast the Pig: Constitutional Limits of FTC, FCC and DOJ Interference in Media and Speech (TechFreedom and Competitive Enterprise Institute seminar)

The FTC’s Quixotic Social Media Inquiry (Tech Policy Podcast ep. 411)

The FTC and Online Speech: What’s Next? (Tech Policy Podcast ep. 410)

NetChoice Comment to Federal Trade Commission Request for Information Regarding Technology Platform “Censorship”

Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users, by Daphne Keller (U. of Chicago Law Review)

Brief amicus curiae of Francis Fukuyama in Moody v. NetChoice, Daphne Keller, Counsel

Speakers' Biographies

Berin Szóka

Berin is President of TechFreedom. Named one of Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People by Washingtonian Magazine, his work focuses on how law shapes digital media in the U.S. and Europe, especially free expression, consumer and child protection, and telecommunications. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF). Before joining PFF, he practiced law at Latham & Watkins LLP and Lawler Metzger Milkman & Keeney, LLC, and clerked for the Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

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Daphne Keller

Daphne directs the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford Law School’s Cyber Policy Center, and was formerly the Director of Intermediary Liability at the school’s Center for Internet and Society. Her work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users’ rights. Until 2015 Daphne was Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had primary responsibility for the company’s search products. She worked on groundbreaking Intermediary Liability litigation and legislation around the world and counseled both overall product development and individual content takedown decisions.

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Chris Marchese

Chris Marchese is Director of NetChoice’s Litigation Center. He manages NetChoice’s active lawsuits, amicus program, and legal advocacy. The Litigation Center’s portfolio focuses on protecting online freedom and digital liberty in the courtroom and court of public opinion. Before joining NetChoice in 2019, Marchese worked at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center and served as a law clerk for the Senate Judiciary Committee and for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

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Recorded Webinar—Algorithmic Choice or Regulatory Overreach?: A Look at Missouri’s Proposed Social Media Rule

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Speakers' Biographies

Berin Szóka

Daphne Keller

Chris Marchese

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