A coalition of civil rights and public interest groups issued recommendations today on policies they believe Internet intermediaries should adopt to try to address hate online. While there’s much of value in these recommendations, EFF does not and cannot support the full document. Because we deeply respect these organizations,...

Welcome to a brand new kind of whodunnit. This one has everything: an extremely popular game, a short-lived takedown, and so very many memes. The ways of the DMCA and YouTube are unknown and unknowable.Trailers are a time-tested and proven way of getting attention for a new piece of media—movies,...

The free and open Internet has enabled disparate communities to come together across miles and borders, and empowered marginalized communities to share stories, art, and information with one another and the broader public—but restrictive and often secretive or poorly messaged policies by corporate gatekeepers threaten to change that.Content policies restricting...

Today, Electronic Frontier Foundation sent the note below to every member of the EU bodies negotiating the final draft of the new Copyright Directive in the "trilogue" meetings.The note details our grave misgivings about the structural inadequacies and potential for abuse in the late-added and highly controversial Articles 11...

The latest news from Brussels: Italy is not happy with Article 13 or Article 11, and wants them gone.What is going on with Europe’s meme-filtering Article 13 (and the hyperlink-meddling Article 11)? After the proposals sneaked over the finish line in a close European Parliamentary vote in July, the decision-making...

In a democracy, people should have the right to read, and publish, the law. In theory, that should be easier than ever today. The Internet has vastly improved public access to the “operating system” of our government—the local, state, and federal statutes and regulations we are expected to abide by.Unfortunately,...

Update December 4, 2018: The Supreme Court denied certiorari in this case today. That means that the Second Circuit’s ruling will stand. We are disappointed that the Supreme Court did not fix the lower court’s error and hope that the decision does not lead to further erosion of fair...

All across the country right now, major wireless Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are talking to legislators, mayors, regulators, and the press about the potential of 5G wireless services as if they will cure all of the problems Americans face right now in the high-speed access market. But the cold hard...