Good Law | Bad Law

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Corynne McSherry, the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), to discuss content moderation on big social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.   Aaron and Corynne address the issues of digital rights, how private companies like Facebook can censor content without implicating the First Amendment, and how transparency is so important as social media platforms come under increasing scrutiny for the content policies and practices.  EFF, a prominent digital rights non-profit, has been integrally involved in these issues, focusing on impact litigation around such issues as intellectual property, open access, and digital rights, among others.  Corynne and Aaron discuss the big concerns surrounding content moderation – Who should decide what we see? What speech can be regulated? Is it censorship? How can speech be regulated?   As always, we do not edit the conten