Sarah B. Rogers
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526 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jan
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My first official trip was to Europe, and while I was in Europe, a large fine came down on an American platform, X, under the Digital Services Act, which I'll get into in a moment.
So Europe, especially since the Second World War, but I think really since the American founding and our codification of the First Amendment, you know, America has taken a much stronger approach on free speech than even most of the West.
And with the rise of the Internet and all communication or a lot of communication becoming transnational,
we see these new technocratic regulatory frameworks in Europe bumping up against the commitments to free speech in the United States.
And Jason makes an important observation that for a while, some of these large American technology platforms were more inclined to moderate or to censor, kind of in conformity with some prevailing norms and concerns in the United States.
But I think
In the United States, we've shifted back toward a less censorious approach and so have these platforms.
And at the same time, you have regulatory efforts in Europe and the UK, and I'll name a couple that I think have been particularly relevant.
So the UK has something called the Online Safety Act.
The Online Safety Act imposes age-gating obligations on a broad swath of content, almost any content that's upsetting, and then requires platforms to run risk assessments for, and in some cases remove, content that the UK would say is illegal.
And in the UK, you know,
major categories of content are banned, are rendered illegal, that would not be illegal in the United States, which is where these platforms are located, which is where their original user base is, which is where their executives live, and which is their primary regulator.
So under the Online Safety Act, we now have active litigation by the relevant regulator Ofcom against several American websites.
These are websites that don't reach into the UK.
They're not
These aren't websites dedicated to discussing the Queen.
They're not websites that sell goods in the United Kingdom.
These are websites that exist on American soil, host large quantities of American users, and oftentimes discuss American political topics.
But because users are permitted to discuss them in a way that offends UK law, there's the imposition of a UK fine.
The Digital Services Act in the EU is similar.
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