Date published:
June 1, 2016
"When platforms are made responsible for determining what speech is illegal, those intermediaries tend to over-remove content, out of an abundance of caution, Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liability at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and a former associate general counsel at Google, told BuzzFeed News. “They take down perfectly legal content out of concern that otherwise they themselves could get in trouble,” Keller said.
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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on June 01, 2016 at 10:00AM