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My Testimony to the Colombian Constitutional Court Regarding Online Account Terminations and Content Removals

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In other words, the law simply wasn’t designed to redress the plaintiffs’ concerns. In the US, the Constitution only restricts the action of government actors, not private entities. Instead, any government effort to curtail UGC publishers’ account termination or content removal constitutes censorship.

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Why the Online News Act is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem, Part Six: CBC Eligibility Harms News Competition and Its Public Interest Mandate

Michael Geist

The government appears to acknowledge that this could create some problems, leading to the possibility of further regulations specifically targeting public broadcasters that become eligible news businesses under the law. In doing so, public broadcasters also qualify for the system. .