Exporting the First Amendment through trade: The global 'constitutional moment' for online platform liability

• Main Author: LIU, Han-wei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Communications Decency Act Section 230; content regulations; Digital Services Act; platform governance; defamation; fake news; misinformation; International Trade Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4416; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6374/viewcontent/GT_GJIL220012.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The U.S. in the recent United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and U.S.-Japan Digital Trade Agreement adopts a new clause which mirrors Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, shielding online intermediaries from third-party contents liability. For policymakers, the seemingly innocuous...