On the second day of confirmation hearings Tuesday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced questions from members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. Tuesday’s hearings started off with Senator Dick Durbin asking Jackson about her judicial philosophy and how she decides cases. Jackson shared a three-step process she follows while deciding any case. When a case [...]
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) reported Wednesday that 47 people across Canada were arrested, 186 charges were laid for online sexual exploitation, and a dozen children were brought to safety as part of a long-running international operation led by New Zealand’s Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of Internal Affairs (DIA). The operation is a coordination between [...]
Germany administrative court holds new online hate speech regulation violates EU law
The Administrative Court in Cologne Tuesday ruled that key provisions of the amended Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG), aimed at curbing online hate speech, violate European Union law on civil liberties. The ruling delivered a partial victory to Google and Meta that had challenged the new law in February last year. The new provision §3a requires [...]
Amid cries of foul play, historian of Stalin-era purges gets 15 years in Russian prison
A Russian court lengthened the prison sentence of historian and human rights activist Yuri Dmitriev on Monday, according to an official statement. The increase from 13 to 15 years was the latest development in a lengthy legal saga arising from charges widely decried as “spurious” and “politically motivated” efforts by Russian authorities to punish the [...]
Hungarian Anti-LGBTQ+ Campaign: Restricting Portrayals of Homosexuality to Minors
In June 2021, the Hungarian Parliament passed certain amendments to several acts, which curtailed the dissemination of information concerning homosexuality and sex reassignment (“H&SR”) among minors and school-goers. Inter alia, the legislation: (1) bans the availability of any material portraying or promoting H&SR or any other forms of deviation from one’s sex assigned at birth [...]
Russia fines Google additional 2M rubles for hosting prohibited content
The Tagansky District Court of Moscow issued an additional fine of 2 million rubles ($28,085) against Google Monday for not deleting previously prohibited content. This latest fine brings the total amount imposed on Google by the court to approximately 41 million rubles. A new Article 13.41 was added to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative [...]
The Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care & Rehabilitation) Bill, (2021), is expected to be tabled during the monsoon parliamentary session. The initial Bill was approved by the Lower House of the Parliament in 2018; however, it was never presented in the Upper House. The 2018 proposal deals with human trafficking, as well as rescue safety [...]
Moscow court fines Facebook and Twitter for failing to delete illegal content
Moscow’s Tagansky District Court imposed fines Thursday against Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc, and Pavel Durov’s Telegram. The Russian government stated that these fines were the result of Facebook and Twitter failing to delete illegal content. The court first decided the case against the tech giants back in April and found that the companies violated the Code [...]
India government: Twitter no longer enjoys immunity for user-generated content
The government of India stated in an affidavit on Tuesday that US microblogging platform Twitter has lost its legal immunity against claims arising from user-generated content due to its failure to comply with the country’s new technology rules. The rules, known as the Information Technology (Guidelines For Intermediaries And Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, [...]
India police organization files case against Twitter for child pornography
The Delhi Police Cyber Cell on Monday filed a case against Twitter Inc. & Twitter Communication India Pvt. Ltd. for failing to take action on a complaint by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPR). The NCPR had filed a complaint in May for cases of child pornographic content on the micro-blogging platform. [...]