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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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🚨🚨🚨 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

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