Sony Pictures Entertainment experienced the full force of the “ Streisand effect ” when its efforts to prevent the publication of emails leaked in a 2014 hack had the... +Read more
Rather than simply providing trademark holders with instructions on how to send formal takedown requests for user-generated content on their sites, Etsy, YouTube, and Vimeo each encourage rights holders and their representatives to contact alleged infringers and attempt to informally resolve a dispute before pursuing legal action... +Read more
Google was praised for “defending freedom” when it refused to comply with an order to remove the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” video from its services... +Read more
Google received widespread praise for announcing it would bankroll some users in their legal fights against illegitimate copyright takedown notices of their YouTube videos . Google launched the... +Read more
In 2010 Twitter was applauded for standing up for two anonymous users who were frequent critics of Pennsylvania Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett. When Twitter received a subpoena from Pennsylvania prosecutors seeking the identities of the users , it... +Read more
Google received accolades from privacy advocates and the press when it fought the Mississippi Attorney General’s (AG) 79-page subpoena demanding information allegedly related to illegal materials available through Google’s services. Google, along with... +Read more
Facebook was praised for defending free speech when it went out of its way to defend the First Amendment rights of its users to use its “Like” feature. When a... +Read more
Major Internet companies were showered with praise by press and even the U.S. President after coming out in support of net neutrality in 2014 and 2015. Companies advocated for net neutrality in various ways: Mozilla, reddit,... +Read more
Twitter was commended for challenging government rules preventing it from disclosing basic information about national security requests for user information. When Twitter sued for the ability to reveal how many and what type of national security-related demands it received from the federal government, it was heralded for “doing the right thing”... +Read more
Google, reddit, Wikimedia, and other online services were widely recognized for standing up for freedom of expression by serving as ringleaders for an online “... +Read more
Path came under harsh criticism when a software developer discovered that the company violated its own Terms of Use by uploading users’ entire address books to the cloud. Overwhelming public and press condemnation forced the company to... +Read more
CloudFlare, a major content delivery network, won praise for offering HTTPS encryption for its clients’ data by default, for free . In a move... +Read more