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Important dates in DSA rollout for Very Large Online Platforms, including when to expect the first Risk Assessments, Audits, Researcher Access, and Board summaries of platform risks.

As of 1:00 PM, February 1, 2023, Lumen time, Lumen is still receiving from Twitter copies of DMCA and other takedown notices originally sent to Twitter. Other than these status updates, you can find us, and Lumen-adjacent posts, on Mastodon. Lumen (.world)

As of 5:30 AM, February 10, 2023, Lumen time, Lumen is still receiving from Twitter copies of DMCA and other takedown notices originally sent to Twitter. Other than these status updates, you can find us, and Lumen-adjacent posts, on Mastodon. Lumen (.world)

Today marks the first DSA deadline: intermediaries must publish their user numbers, & some will be declared VLOPs/VLOSEs. Just in time, we've published the eBook collating the contributions from our online-symposium with IViR: verfassungsblog.de/books/

Please join us virtually on TUESDAY 2/21 @ 9:30 for a live analysis of oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google! With Jonathan Zittrain Dr. Mary Anne Franks Mike Godwin 🇺🇸 Emma Llanso James Grimmelmann Gus Hurwitz Volokh Conspiracy jkosseff Alan Rozenshtein hosted by Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society rebootingsocialmedia.org/events/gonzale…

[Eugene Volokh] Right of Access to Court Records Applies Even Absent Any Current "Substantial Public Interest in This Case" dlvr.it/SjbfXM

As of 7:00 PM, February 17, 2023, Lumen time, Lumen is still receiving from Twitter copies of DMCA and other takedown notices originally sent to Twitter. Other than these status updates, you can find us, and Lumen-adjacent posts, on Mastodon. Lumen (.world)

Twice today in Taamneh oral arguments, Twitter’s counsel said platforms should be exposed to liability in the U.S. if Turkish police told them a post was terrorist content, and they did not take it down. That is so obviously wrong, we shouldn’t need this chilling illustration.

As of 8:00 AM, March 16, 2023, Lumen time, Lumen is still receiving from Twitter copies of DMCA and other takedown notices originally sent to Twitter. Other than these status updates, you can find us, and Lumen-adjacent posts, on Mastodon. Lumen (.world)

At a quick skim, OFCOM appear to walk a very fine line in its guidance for "illegal content risk assessments." It doesn't *require* platforms to proactively monitor users' posts. But it's hard to say how platforms could comply without doing so, at least for sample sets. 1/

No doubt that EU has been very proactive with its laws on operations of Big techs. But, I doubt if the laws would be this strict if most of the big techs were domiciled in their backyard.

As of April 15th, 2023, Twitter has not submitted copies of any of the takedown notices it receives to Lumen.  According to Lumen's persons of contact there,  Twitter's 3rd party data sharing policies are under review, and they will update Lumen once there is more information.

🚨🚨🚨 In a severe blow to online transparency, @Twitter stopped sharing content removal requests with Lumen at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society since April 15. Here’s the kind of insight that journalists and research communities NO LONGER have access to because of this:

Uh, it’s about time these questions got asked. Srsly.

Ouroboros strikes again! "Someone Trying to Vanish My Article About People Trying to Vanish Articles" reason.com/volokh/2023/06… Seriously, too funny. "Too bad, Liam." indeed. Talking about messing with the wrong guy....

This is such an important and timely report and a huge contribution for the future. Congratulations Kat Duffy @[email protected] and Atlantic Council ! And so welcome to see collaboration from Yoel Roth isn't on this site anymore Mike Masnick nicolewong Riana Pfefferkorn [email protected] Charlotte Willner Dave Willner - @[email protected] Alex Feerst

"Warning: TorrentFreak’s Twitter / X Account Has Been Hijacked" torrentfreak.com/warning-torren…