The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong

Author:Sarah Jeong [Jeong, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: social media, online harassment, internet, gamergate, free speech, moderation, nonfiction, dystopian, swatting, doxing, censorship
Publisher: Vox Media, Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

How the DMCA Taught Us All the Wrong Lessons

Cindy Garcia went straight to the DMCA because it was the “only” option she had. But it was also the “only” option in her mind because 16 years of the DMCA had trained her to think in terms of ownership, control, and deletion.

When you assume that your only recourse for safety is deletion, you don’t have very many options. It’s often very difficult to target the poster directly. They might be anonymous. They might have disappeared. They might live in a different country. So usually, when seeking to delete something off the web, wronged individuals go after the platform that hosts the content. The problem is that those platforms are mostly immunized through Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (described in detail below). The biggest gaping hole in CDA 230, however, is copyright. That’s where most of the action regarding legally required deletion on the internet happens, and all of that is regulated by the DMCA.

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