My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean... verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...

I'm pretty sure the CJEU in Russmedia just casually dismantled 80% of the DSA with one ill-considered judgment. As I read it, it substitutes in GDPR rules -- not notice and takedown rules -- for any platform where a user is likely to post content about people. 1/ curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

A few weeks ago, I filed a Comment with @hutko.bsky.social and @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy in Bluesky’s TOS consultation. It urged them to build and maintain some key legal/content management infrastructure for distributed moderation on ATProto. 1/ cyberlaw.stanford.edu/content/file...

DTSP has launched a new working group on DSA Article 21 out-of-court dispute settlement! Looking forward to engaging with a wide array of stakeholders as part of this effort. cc: @hutko.bsky.social @niklaseder.bsky.social @gateklons.bsky.social @daphnek.bsky.social @mathver.bsky.social

This letter is important. It is a careful, detailed, scholarly, and accurate explanation of the elements of the DSA and EU law that prevent the DSA from being a "censorship" law in the first place. The list of EU expert signatories is stellar. @hutko.bsky.social @joanbarata.bsky.social

Very happy to be a signatory to this letter drafted by @hutko.bsky.social countering Trumpian misinformation on DSA. Please read thread. I also note Martin's kind offer to provide DSA training to US politicians at 1% cost 🤣

Martin's DSA Newsletter #7 is out: www.platform.courses/blog/martin-...

If this isn’t on your reading list, it absolutely should be. A remarkable document in many ways. (Remember, this is Council of Europe, not EU - so directly relevant to UK and the ECHR.)

brilliant new research by my team's research assistant Ioan Paul Sipos, who compiled a list of third-party companies selling platforms DSA compliance-related services! a v useful resource for anyone interested in how the regulatory compliance sausage gets made www.dsadecoded.com/third-party-...

This is probably one for the DMA afficionad@s - Apple is suing the Commission curia.europa.eu/juris/liste....

new article in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social on the concept of systemic risks in the DSA. what does it mean that we think of all kinds of social issues linked to online platforms as 'risks' to be managed? find out this way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I recent read this forthcoming book by @nataliealkiviadou.bsky.social taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1... It's a really forensic and detailed critique of the often unprincipled and illiberal caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights on hate speech. Essential reading if you're writing in the area.

This an interesting comparative report on online safety regulations around the world (hat tip to Cesare Pitea) bhr.stern.nyu.edu/publication/...

Knight Institute Condemns Trump Administration’s Effort to “Subjugate Universities to Official Power.” See statements from @jameeljaffer.bsky.social & @alexabdo.bsky.social below: knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

ECtHR will soon decide on a case similar to the US TikTok ban. It concerns the blocking of Russian websites in Ukraine based on national security grounds. See our intervention: husovec.eu/wp-content/u... I sincerely hope that ECtHR is more thoughtful about freedom of expression than SCOTUS.

First was an excellent discussion with @hutko.bsky.social on interpreting the DSA through the prism of the DMA at the Digital Markets Research Hub. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKOY... (2/5)

Great news: the Hungarian attempt to force through EU mass surveillance of photos, text messages, etc. (#chatcontrol) failed today. It will certainly be resurrected in the new year though, so please support your local digital rights group in fighting for privacy. x.com/echo_pbreyer...

[Event alert] "Decoding DSA Risk Assessments and Audits", 22.1.2025 at LSE. I will interview @agnekaarlep.bsky.social, Curtis Barnes, and Prof. Lorna Woods - three leading (industry / academic) experts - about the first batch of reports. Pre-registration here: husovec.eu/2024/12/save...

How the ineluctable logic of the UK Online Safety Act led Ofcom to designate hyperlinks as an illegality risk factor. And more... #OnlineSafetyAct #SafetyByDesign www.cyberleagle.com/2024/12/safe...

EY, Deloitte, and KMPG are the main auditors so far. Only Wikipedia & X hired someone else.

shout out to @alhohlfeld.bsky.social for the tracking of all the DSA risk assessments, audits, implementation reports, and more here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Summary in🧵🔽 1/

New podcast! Robert Gorwa is the author of the new book The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation, out from Oxford University Press. The book advances a theoretical model for explaining the adoption of these different regulatory strategies.

This is really getting quite remarkable • BlueSky user numbers have doubled in the past week and now total 3.5 million across US & UK 🚀 • Number of people deleting their X/Twitter account remains way up And the next chart is particularly notable...

New podcast! I spoke to law scholar Martin Husovec, author of the new book Principles of the Digital Services Act, about the rollout of the DSA and topics ranging from systemic risk and transparency reporting to trusted flaggers and more. www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-th...

Periodic reminder that I made a #trustandsafety starter pack. Let me know about new arrivals who should be added to this list!

New EU Digital Services Act delegated act on data access for researchers just dropped. This has been expected for months! (HT @hutko.bsky.social)

Justin Hendrix from Tech Policy Press interviewed me about my new book Principles of the Digital Services Act and about the rollout of the DSA and topics ranging from systemic risk, transparency, trusted flaggers and more www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-th...

Interested in pursuing a PhD on the Digital Services Act or other platform laws? You can apply for paid PhD positions at LSE until 1.12.2024. If you have questions, feel free to get in touch www.lse.ac.uk/law/study/ph...

Have your popcorn ready for December. #OnlineSafetyAct #EndtoEndEncryption www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

My new nickname, "the guy who is the very best at explaining the DSA". Thank you for your kind words, Daphne!

The guy who is the very best at explaining the DSA, @hutko.bsky.social, has turned his in-person, in-depth course for professionals into an online version. Check it out: www.platform.courses

‘[The Secretary of State] said that as far as he was aware, the tech sector was the “only sector .. that can release products in to society without proving they’re safe before release”;’ >>> Tort 101 exam question?

It looks like the first EU DSA Art. 21 dispute resolution providers have been certified and... they're in Hungary and Malta. This Daniel Holznagel post has details about the Maltese one; comments describe the Hungarian one. (And calling @hutko.bsky.social) 1/ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

In case you missed the dick-swinging (that's a legal term) going on between Elon Musk and Thierry Breton over on X, it's... possibly actually pretty important this time. They're posturing about DSA enforcement again. 1/

How do we measure digital safety? And then, how do we use those metrics for a more trustworthy internet? A new whitepaper co-authored by DTSP’s @davidsullivan.bsky.social for the World Economic Forum's Global Coalition for Digital Safety explores these questions and approaches

[new paper] "The Digital Service Act’s Red Line: What the Commission Can and Cannot Do About Disinformation". papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

[new paper]: Rising Above Liability: The Digital Services Act as a Blueprint for the Second Generation of Global Internet Rules ssrn.com/abstract=459...

Good news! The deadline for telling the @EU_Commission your experience as a researcher with platform data, or other comments on how to administer data access under the DSA, has been extended to May 31. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/