ICLE Scholarship on ‘Plug-and-Play’ Moderation Flaws Cited in Law Firm Blog
The law firm Kelley Drye cited comments by ICLE Director of Policy Ben Sperry and Director of Innovation Policy Kristian Stout in its Ad Law Access blog. The post covers the recent withdrawal of a proposed Missouri rule that would have governed social-media content moderation.
You can read the full blog post here.
The International Center for Law & Economics (“ICLE”) expressed similar concerns in their published comment, additionally targeting the technical impracticality of the “plug and play” model of the rule—stating that content moderation systems are deeply integrated into the platform’s systems, and new moderation models cannot be just plugged into a platform’s architecture.