Daphne Keller

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Daphne Keller
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Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues. May be cranky. [law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller](https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/ ) 🌉 [bridged](https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/daphnek.bsky.social ) from 🦋 [daphnek.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/daphnek.bsky.social ), follow nostr:npub1pqr3g2gk3vsnrqk9kwfqqcxc6d5cwjr0hyc0nlzz9py5nf92vd9sn02sck to interact Web site: https://bsky.app/profile/daphnek.bsky.social Link: https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship. That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
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What if we all just agreed that "VLOP" stands for *both* Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines. If we actually need to distinguish them, we can revert to saying VLOPSEs or VLOPs/SEs any time we need to! But in the meantime we can use simpler language.
Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all. The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location. RE: [Google Calls ICE Agents a Vuln...]( ) View quoted note →
Alphabet's letter to the House Judiciary Committee is making me physically cringe. Apparently we are now the country where you ritualistically say false things to lawmakers because it is what they want to hear. [judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...](📄.pdf ) [judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subs...](📄.pdf )
Lately, I’ve been defending the European Commission against allegations of censorship. I haven’t always done that. In 2017, for example, I accused them of promoting censorship to a dystopian degree. My title was, if I do say so myself, a real banger. 1/ [cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2017/10...]( )