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Feb 27, 2019

Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet

Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible. They open up to Medium’s head of trust and safety.

Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet

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May 28, 2023

A Natural History of Trust & Safety

“Where did Trust & Safety come from?” and related questions. Scattered thoughts, riffs, and conjectures. Not actual history.

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Jun 12, 2018

The Age of Robocopyright?

What is Article 13?

The Age of Robocopyright?

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Oct 22, 2015

Let’s take it to Medium

Earlier this week, a conversation that began last summer about tech and work came back to life on Medium. Monday morning, Amazon’s Jay…

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Sep 23, 2015

Good Embed

One of our goals at Medium is to treat our users better than anyone else. And a way we do this is by trying to make it actually clear (not…

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Sep 22, 2015

Medium’s Commitment to Net Neutrality

Yesterday afternoon Medium co-filed an amicus brief in support of net neutrality at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. This brief is a…

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Sep 8, 2015

Blocking and Tracking

Some Medium users have noticed that ad-blockers are blocking legit parts of Medium, such as our first-party analytics and icons. This is…

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Jul 2, 2015

On the Death of a Very Good Lawyer I Never Met

I’ve been thinking on and off about Mark Levy since I read he shot himself. I’m writing this to try and figure out why. This was in April…

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Alex Feerst is a technology lawyer and expert on technology ethics in areas including artificial intelligence and neurotechnology - https://feerst.com/about

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