New! H2O now has access to new and up-to-date cases via CourtListener and the Caselaw Access Project. Click here for more info.

Main Content

Casebook Read Credits
Technology, Human Rights, and Cybersecurity (Fall 2022)
Section 3 . 4

[Nov 22] Platform Content Policies

Vivek Krishnamurthy

  • What kinds of content should online platforms permit / prohibit?
  • How should online platforms go about deciding whether to permit / prohibit certain forms of content?
  • What is the nature of platforms' content rules? Are they laws? Contracts? Guidelines? Or just self-serving statements?
  • Should different speakers be subject to diferent rules when it comes to regulating online content?
  • What is the role of human rights law when platforms are setting their content policies?

This book, and all H2O books, are Creative Commons licensed for sharing and re-use with the exception of certain excerpts. Any excerpts from the Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, and the Model Penal Code are copyright by The American Law Institute. Excerpts are reproduced with permission, not as part of a Creative Commons license.