Questions tagged [social-media]
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What is the current state of U.S. law regarding misleading inducements in shadow banning?
The general idea appears to be that social media companies retain the right to deamplify users' voices, for reasons that may or may not be ethical or sensible. The question is whether users have any ...
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Are social networks legally required to implement user banning/suspension funcionality?
So are social networks that don't allow users to be suspended/banned legal? Or they are required to implement this feature?
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Can a person use AI-generated human faces as their profile picture?
I've read an article about marketers creating fake linkedin accounts with AI-generated human faces as pfp. A human face makes the account more professional and intimate.
I'm not talking about using AI ...
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Can a goverment body rent space for a public forum from a group that they believe will ban those they legally can't?
Someone who is a member of the government cannot restrict access to a public forum, due to the First amendment. However, a private company are allowed to do so, and often communications that would ...
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Is the server owner required to ask for ID to allow access to adult content on a Discord server in the UK?
Consider somebody is running a Discord server that allows for NSFW content. They use the NSFW tag on the relevant channels, so as to defer to Discord's own "I am over 18" button for ...
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Could my son get in legal trouble for a poor taste joke he made on social media?
My son is 16 and runs a meme page on Instagram. A couple of hours ago, he posted a photograph of Lord Mountbatten with the caption "hey British people, the IRA made Lord Mountbatten go boom, how ...
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Why is it really bad to publicly talk about a case you are involved in on social media?
I was inspired to ask this question due to these related Reddit AMA
I’m Jaime Rogozinski, Founder of WallStreetBets and I’m suing Reddit. AMA.
Help me understand the trademark battle for ...
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How is social media allowed to reproduce content, but you can't put the same content on a blog with ads?
I see videos and images from Twitter feeds, and they are full of stuff without copyright notices.
This is just one small example, I see thousands of posts all with sound, or video or images taken from ...
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Are social media TOS invalid because lack of due process and mutuality creates an unenforceable illusory contract?
Generally speaking, the TOS of social media platforms share certain common features.
They do not give the user the right to any "due process." If the platform wishes to cancel, block or ...
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What are the legal requirements of running a giveaway competition where people play for free
What are the legal requirements of running a giveaway competition where people play for free but will win something?
Also is a competition like a singing/ talent competition where there are judges (...
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How does copyright over content that is not behind paywalled content work?
I’m sorry but I like international law and consortiums exclusion right to ownership generally, so I would like that sort of answer to: How does copyright over online content that is not behind ...
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Is Facebook liable when they fail to remove illegal postings?
There are criminals creating hundreds of Facebook accounts for identity theft and other scams. Besides the illegality of the scams themselves, most of these masquerade as someone else. Both actions ...
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What legal protections are there for moderators of social media who view child pornography when it is referred to them?
Suppose you are a moderator of a social media website such as Reddit, or something in the Stack Exchange network, or similar.
Users can report inappropriate, abusive, or illegal content. For example, ...
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Is a US Government order to a private media company to suppress an article/story a violation of the First Amendment?
I'm trying to better understand this comment (and its implications):
In a pure hypothetical (so as to avoid any speculation on whether or not it happened), if the US Government were to be found to ...
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Judges barring defendants from using social media
A New York Times article recently mentioned that a US immigration judge has prohibited a non-US-citizen from speaking on social media, apparently as a condition of release from detention.
But the ...
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