There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “DEFEND IP Act.” The problem is that instead of “defending IP,” this bill will incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts...

Violencia contra las mujeres en política: no es ruido marginal, es un mecanismo sistemático de exclusión Comentarios en redes sociales, imágenes y videos generados por inteligencia artificial, ataques coordinados, entre otros. La violencia facilitada por las tecnologías que enfrentan las mujeres que participan en política dejó de ser ruido de...

Ya existe una ley que atiende la violencia política contra las mujeres ¿Cómo va su implementación? La Ley 2453 de 2025 es un avance en prevenir, atender, rechazar y sancionar la violencia contra las mujeres en política. Incorpora una perspectiva interseccional que reconoce las diversas fuentes de exclusión y discriminación...

Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA), H.R. 10364, a bill that would give copyright owners a new legal tool to block Americans’ access to foreign websites accused...

An analysis by MonitorA reveals that the tool helps create photo montages and cartoons specifically targeting physical characteristics; its use is prohibited by the TSE to spread gender-based political violence O post AI is used in 25% of offensive images targeting female candidates on X apareceu primeiro em InternetLab.

Judge Allows Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit Against Trump Administration to Move ForwardNEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online can move forward, a federal judge ruled yesterday. On October 1,...