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Today we are launching TOSsed Out , a new iteration of EFF’s longstanding work in tracking and documenting the ways that Terms of Service (TOS) and other speech moderating rules are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people by online services. As a result of these practices, posts are deleted and accounts banned, harming those for whom the Internet is an irreplaceable forum to express ideas, connect with others, and find support. TOSsed Out continues in the vein of Onlinecensorship.org ,...
Californians have successfully pushed the state's legislature to restore two-thirds of the 2015 Open Internet Order through state laws. Stopping legislation from Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez that's backed by AT&T and Comcast is the final piece to bringing back those critical protections to promote broadband choice. The California Assembly will soon take up A.B. 1366 , which would renew a 2011 ISP-backed law that expires this year. That law had the stated goal of promoting choice and competition for Voice over...
Social media platforms routinely make arbitrary and contradictory decisions about what speech to block or penalize. No one is happy with the status quo: not people who want more censorship, nor people who want less censorship, nor people who simply want platforms to make different choices so that already-marginalized groups won't bear the brunt of their censorship policies. So many are looking for a better way forward. EFF offered a few thoughts on this last week, but we've also been...
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