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The EU Endangers Free Speech Online... Again

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Is There a Difference Between Private Law and Global Law?

Sally Kohn: There's a really interesting kind of blurring between government interest in having their laws apply in their country and what companies have the freedom to do. The UN special rapporteur on free expression, David Kay is calling for companies to think about better conforming their terms of service to human rights standards. She says it short circuits individual Internet users rights to assert their free expression rights.Kohn: It collapses down one of the real kind of power and potential benefits of the Internet with lots of different kinds of environments for communication.

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